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While it is tragic that the pilot was killed, and disappointing that SpaceShip Two was destroyed, at least it demonstrates the will behind the project. Virgin intends to make this work. Too many of these projects are safe, boutique demonstrations of corner technology bits, their sole purpose to bring in clueless investors to fund more worthless dog-and-pony shows.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I think the window on sub-orbital joy rides is closing fast and Branson is going to take a bath on this endeavor. Sub-orbital flight from point A to point B on opposite sides of the world is a different market.
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A little girl asked her Mom, "Mom, may I take the dog for a walk around the block?"
Mom replies, "No, because she is in heat."
"What's that mean?" asked the child.
"Go ask your father. I think he's in the garage."
The little girl goes to the garage and says, "Dad, may I take Belle for a walk around the block? I asked Mom, but she said the dog was in heat, and to come to you."
Dad said, "Bring Belle over here."
Being old school he took a rag, soaked it with a little gasoline, and dabbed the dog's backside with it to disguise the scent, and said, "OK, you can go now, but keep Belle on the leash and only go one time round the block."
The little girl left and returned a few minutes later with no dog on the leash.
Surprised, Dad asked, "Where's Belle?"
The little girl said, "She ran out of gas about halfway down the block, so another dog is pushing her home."
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I'm watching an Aussie show ATM, but it's not the first show I've seen where the producers seem to have decided to add a twitter feed pop-up would be a good idea.
I mean: Seriously?
OK, if it were some great philosophical debate (which no-one who has a twitter account would watch, anyway), fair enough; but essentially all it does is allow morons to display "me am moron! hur hur hur!" on screen in the homes of everyone who watches the show.
I have yet to see a single twit with content more meaningful, interesting, or thought provoking than my example above -- and I'm up to the seventh show of the series!
Am I just being a grumpy old bugger, or is it truly as fruggin' stupid an idea as I think it is?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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hur hur hur!
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I hear what you're saying. In all but three cases I can think of, I've found such an 'addition' to devalue the show.
Can't stand the idea of the place. If getting a job relied on being a member there, I probably wouldn't even thank the prospective clients for their time before leaving at whichever point I learned of such a requirement.
However...
Where I have found it useful has been for a couple of Aussie panel/public-forum shows, particularly QandA and Insight. I've also found it okay for a show called Living With The Enemy. The only thing the on-screen feed gave me was the idea to poke about online and see what people thought about the issues being discussed/explored at the time. Discussing it with my wife would have been more interesting, but its not always practical.
It actually takes (and keeps!) my attention away from the telly while the shows are still running. Perhaps not exactly the desired outcome... As interesting as it was to see more opinions presented than there were members in the studio audience, I still felt grimy having visited twatter on my own machine.
Which show are you watching out of curiosity?
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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Believe it or not, the Australian Bake-off.
I like watching people with skills that I'm somewhat short of.
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Fair's fair - since you started it, I'll admit to having watched and enjoyed the British version of the same show. Mmmm gingerbread houses.
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One of the big problems with t'interweb is that is democratises access: which means that anyone who can work out how to turn on an iPad one try out of six can demonstrate to the whole world exactly how stupid he / she is. And boy, do they do it!
In "the old days" the media you were given was edited to remove the obvious morons - that was the editors job after all - but now all communication is so instant that you can't really do that any more and Joe Stupid gets to air his single remaining brain cell with the world. I think it's a fad: I think it'll die a natural death. But it'll be with us for a while.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: In "the old days" the media you were given was edited to remove the obvious morons - that was the editors job after all
That's the thing: Why have a twitter feed on screen during the show?
The twits that are shown can't possibly have been through any kind of editorial process, they're just too moronic, so some producer/director/editor must have decided that just anyone could try for 5 seconds of fame.
It must be an "Oh, this is In, so if we use it we'll look cool!" thing, instituted by boring old farts who have no idea what twitter is -- kinda like when marketing morons say "We're making a viral video!"
Short may it live.
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Because Twatter is "trendy" - so the (generally rather old and out-of-touch) people in charge of the programs know it's important to include it, but don't understand what it is or where it comes from.
To not have it would make it seem the program was less appealing to the market sector it is aimed at: probably young stupid twatters.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: To not have it would make it seem the program was less appealing to the market sector it is aimed at: probably young stupid twatters.
The Australian Bake-off?
Teenagers only watch that because their mums have it on, so the geniuses in charge couldn't even get the right demographic.
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Jeeze. I think I'll pass on the MTV bake-off.
I like watching baking shows because I'm cr@p at it (I can cook up a storm, but with baking you not only can't see what's going on, but you can't taste anything before it's too late to change it), so I don't think I'd be interested in watching spotty irks who are even cr@ppier.
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I'm not so sure:
Given the opportunities for hilarity when stupid gets aired versus the mediocrity of many boob tube offerings...
Were the idiot filters were any better when we were young? (how else do you explain Tony Blackburn?)
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Am I just being a grumpy old bugger, or is it truly as fruggin' stupid an idea as I think it is?
Are those two statements really mutually exclusive? 
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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Atcherley, some of the things I get grumpy about, when I think about them properly, I'm in the wrong.
I suppose that means that my lizard brain is still functioning normally*.
* No, that's not a reference to that Johnnie-come-lately Seth Gor-whatever, because he's a moron, too.
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Sounds quite normal to me.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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Between these hashtags being promoted during shows, the station logo in the bottom-right corner, and promos for the upcoming show taking up almost half the screen, watching TV "live" has become even more of a horrible experience whenever I'm subjected to it (don't get me started on the 20+ minutes of commercials for one-hour shows).
Personally, I gave up on it years ago and only binge-watch a full season of a show after it's come out on DVD. As an added bogus, I tend to watch a lot less TV than I used to.
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Why would you watch a show that has this feature?
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Not for that feature -- why would you buy software that has features that are of no use to you?
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We just had a pot luck lunch in the office for Halloween.
Firstly, no one brought bacon. Yes, I know I only have myself to blame.
Secondly, I ate too much. Much, much, much too much. All sorts of things like chicken curry, tamales, wings, croissant filled with turkey or ham, etc., etc.
The killer, of course, was the strawberry cream cake. Why did I have to have 2 pieces? Groan...
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Sounds to me like it's just as well there was no bacon.
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