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They film it just across the water from here. I've always found it too "Canadian" for my tastes. Of all the current sci fi-ish tv programs filmed in Vancouver I think JPod is probably the best.
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Love Stargate, especially the fragrant Amanda Tapping!
Essex Girl I believe, so like Star Trek TNG, Essex Girls get about a bit.(I am pretty sure Councillor Troi comes from Essex too!)
I am waiting to see Continuum, and, sadly, have every episode on DVD.
(I also have near 700 episodes of Doctor Who too, God, somebody, get me a life!  )
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All of them: original movie, SG-1, Atlantis are my favorites.
I'm a fan of Stargate, INDEED.
And i'm still wondering what's the really mean of the words:'Jafa Kuri'.
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I've always enjoyed Stargate but I think it jumped the shark a while back. Atlantis is okay but it's getting to be a home for retired SG1ers. And let's face it, without the humour of O'Neill, it isn't really the same.
Still watch the reruns nearly every night on Sky when I get home: how sad is that?
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Yeah, they were bloody funny when I saw them last Wed night... It's a pretty good show the Gruen Transfer!
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Ha ha ha that is great, but what do we do with NZ once we have it?
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DownUnderDev wrote: what do we do with NZ once we have it
SEND ALL THE KIWIS BACK THERE!! 
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Then who's going to live in Bondi (although I don't think this applies any more though)
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Then who's going to live in Bondi
The posers can have it. Its a sh*t hole at the best of times
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Can't you come and invade South Africa please? Remove the clowns that we've got running our joint. We've got gold...it'll be worth the effort.  and hey...we might let you win some rugby matches too. 
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I have the feeling, increasingly, that all of big corporate software development is rapidly spiralling into a black hole of inefficiency with interminable and frequent meetings, use case, countless diagrams, cost performance indices, unit tests, code reviews etc etc ad infinitum.
Windows Vista's inordinate time to market and almost unbelievable costs and man hours being a case in point of something produced by "dinosaurs".
My feeling is that all this red tape is a direct defensive reaction to hiring the cheapest least talented developers and shoving them into big cubicle farms. Trying to turn what has traditionally been the domain of skilled craftsmen, even artists at it's highest levels into nothing more than cogs in a machine that accounting can get a handle on.
Is it possible that we're going to see a time when small companies with very small teams of tightly focused, very good developers are going to be able to get better products to market faster than the big guys?
I personally think we've already reached this point but I'm curious if I'm alone in that thinking.
I've yet to see many projects in a lot of different fields of endeavour that aren't accomplished more quickly and better by smaller teams of motivated highly skilled people than by great masses of mediocre people.
As software companies keep getting bigger and bigger and increasingly run by the gray men in accounting at the whim of the marketing department I can see it's tempting for them to simply throw more and more resources at a problem thinking "Hey we're big we can throw more at it than the other guys", but their roots are all in small tightly focused highly motivated teams who put out great products for their day.
Is the dinosaur slowly going extinct at the hands of the more nimble little mammals?
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John C wrote: I personally think we've already reached this point but I'm curious if I'm alone in that thinking.
Naw, you're not alone.
Remember Brooks' Law? From 1975's "The Mythical Man-Month"? That was IBM and System/360. Then along comes MS, the quick'n'dirty get it done and get it out company, famous for hiring extremely bright kids and driving them to the edge in order to meet insane deadlines... and mops the floor with IBM who are still trying to use nine women to achieve the 1-month pregnancy.
Of course, MS hires Simonyi, whose dissertation was on a method for building systems like you describe, where programmers can be made cogs and "architects" do all the thinking and none of the coding. Maybe it took 20 years for that rot to set in, but there's little doubt that it did - the story of Vista sounds all too familiar when you stop and think back to the stories of OS/2 2.0 and the "death march" development as the behemoth tried to push something out the door.
Citizen 20.1.01 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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Interesting post. I think you may be right but we won't really see the result until Windows 7 comes out. Microsoft was working on ME, Windows 2000 and XP and I think they released ME just to get something on the market until the others came out.
Then they started on Vista and Windows 7 and I think they just released Vista to get something on the market until Windows 7 comes out. I am not sure that Microsoft will get the customer satisfaction from Windows 7 like they did XP, though.
Early reports are boasting enhanced connectivity with cell phones and secure roaming(a schema that will let you access your bookmarks and passwords from anywhere) both of which I think are going to be potential security nightmares.
So, if Microsoft bombs with Windows 7 after Vista your Dinosaur theory may come to life.
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In general, without getting into a philosophical war about the greats and not so greats of the software industry, I find the smaller an organisation the more pronounced its characteristics. So a terrible software house with three employees will bomb in a year, whereas a large company with a lot of deadweight and analysis paralysis will take years to die. I've worked in both small and big companies, and in general, I prefer smaller companies because of the lack of inertia and the sense of urgency, and the fact that you can't just hire loads of idiots instead of paying a craftsman because the results swiftly become apparent. I'm not sure if the bloat that comes into play as an organisation grows is entirely avoidable though. Past a certain point decisions get delegated to people who don't really care, and the rot starts to set in.
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