Ender’s Game film update…

More than a year after being declared dead by no less an authority than Orson Scott Card himself, the Ender’s Game movie is unexpectedly back in development. The LA Times is reporting that X-men Origins: Wolverine director Gavin Hood is now working on the project and just did a rewrite of Card’s last screenplay.

I don’t know if I should be happy that Ender’s Game is still continuing as a film project….  Or if I should be sad that X-Men Origins: Wolverine’s directory is working on the project.

Can anyone make a suggestion on how I should feel?  Please back it up with opinion and/or fact…

Why Broadband Prices Haven’t Decreased – Creating the first broadband consumer price index

After a new technology is introduced to the market, there is usually a predictable decrease in price as it becomes more common. Laptops experienced precipitous price drops during the past decade. Digital cameras, personal computers, and computer chips all followed similar steep declines in price. Has the price of broadband Internet followed the same model? Shane Greenstein decided to look into it.

Since there are no public data on what has happened to broadband prices over the last decade, Shane Greenstein, a professor of management and strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, and his co-author Ryan McDevitt, an assistant professor of economics and management at the University of Rochester and a graduate of Northwestern University, analyzed the contracts of 1,500 DSL and cable service providers from 2004 to 2009. They found evidence of only a very small price drop, between 3 and 10 percent, nothing like the rates of price decrease that characterize the rest of the electronic world.

Read more at Why Broadband Prices Haven’t Decreased – Creating the first broadband consumer price index.

Backup? Why I want to forward…

Someone stole John Boldt’s laptop out of the trunk of his car. Nothing really newsworthy about that. But according to a CTV Calgary article, that laptop contained the University of Calgary grad student’s nearly-completed master’s thesis, as well as his research and notes.

“It’s so many years of my life just thrown away,” Boldt told CTV. “The computer can be replaced. It’s what’s on it that can’t.” Unless an honest thief returns the precious files, Boldt figures that he can’t return to the University. His academic life and future career, judging from the article, are pretty much over.

I guess he wasn’t on a Mac, and using Time Machine.  Or a internet based backup service…  Or a thumb drive.

Come on folks, not backing up your critical data is just foolish…

Death of the Doctor Clips

First, Clyde and folks stumble upon trouble… (Like the olde days, eh?)

“When the Doctor is declared dead, old companions Sarah Jane and Jo Grant meet for the very first time, and join forces to discover the truth. As an interstellar conspiracy gathers around UNIT HQ, Clyde finds that he holds the fate of the Time Lord in his hand – quite literally.”