So, go ahead and get the first-grader a Firefly if you must (we prefer two tin cans and a very long length of cord).
True inspiration often pulses like a firefly in our faster-than-words world.
As David Rubin of the University of California, Berkeley, lead author on the study, told the AAS meeting, "for a sense of brightness, this supernova is about as bright as a firefly viewed from 3, 000 miles away".
To set up a means of collecting pledges that would turn into donations if a revived "Firefly" looks like it could become a reality.
But after playing with a kid-centric phone from Firefly Mobile for a few days, I'm starting to come around.
The best of them will have learned how to seed and fertilise a community, like Firefly and Amazon, and will provide the software to extract a collective intelligence from their customers.
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The Firefly sells with a variety of faceplates, allowing kids to customize the device.
He also served stints at McKinsey , Goldman Sachs gs (nyse: gs - news - people) and briefly worked for Microsoft msft (nasdaq: msft - news - people), which bought his last startup, Firefly Network , a provider of Internet personalization software.
On the company producing content: Hastings says Firefly is interesting, a 10-year old program that ran on Fox, with an active fan base.
Veronica Mars was one of those shows, like Freaks and Geeks and Firefly, that found a dedicated following of fans but never really scored in the ratings department.
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Firefly is frozen in time, in a suspended state of entrepreneurial joy and limitless optimism.
Like much of the marine life in Japan, firefly squid are commercially fished and eaten as a seasonal delicacy.
Firefly has launched the phone on SunCom Wireless, a division of Berwyn, Penn.
David Pogue of The New York Times has a good wrapup of the available models, including the popular Firefly (pictured), Verizon's LG Migo and the Enfora TicTalk.
Still, as Firefly is showing with its BigNote site built around a thriving community of music fans, good online music stores have the potential to outdo their physical competitors just as Amazon bests its book-trade rivals.
Those diehard fans of "Firefly, " the 2002 cult TV hit, have a history of turning to the internet to buck improbable odds in defense of their favorite show.
After launching the FireFly probes in 2015, the company seeks to launch a larger craft, named DragonFly, in 2016 which will be able to return between 30 to 60 kgs of material to Earth.
Pogue's take: while the TicTalk may have a lot of useful, educational features, both the Migo and the Firefly get the job done when it comes to keeping kids in touch.
True, in Firefly Jayne sold out his fellow travelers, but we never got a sense that he was evil, just dumb.
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The first-edition Firefly I tested is so easily disassembled--the back has a huge and enticing latch that cracks the thing open, exposing its circuitry--that I wonder how long it would actually survive in the hands of an average kid.
Viewership declines, sometimes before a show has an opportunity to catch on, as with the often-discussed "Firefly" or the more recent "Last Resort, " which struggled to find the hook that would keep audiences coming back.
For starters, you have to know that this is the first feature directed by Drew Goddard, a writer from the "Buffy, " "Angel, " "Lost" school, based on a screenplay he co-wrote with the considerably famous "Buffy", "Firefly", "Angel" creator Joss Whedon.
To address that concern, Firefly plans to roll out an insurance plan this summer, allowing parents to pay a small monthly premium to protect against loss.
Kampung Kuantan, a sleepy hollow in Kuala Selangor, 75 km north of the capital, is famed for its firefly "show": thousands of the winged beetles appear each night along the Selangor River, flashing their glowing tails.
They acknowledged that the odds that Fillion was serious about buying the show's rights are "pretty low, " but hope the community's willingness to support some sort of revamped "Firefly" will encourage creator Joss Whedon or someone else with the proper clout to make a move.
Firefly, probably the first and best-known company to package and sell the product, began distilling a sweet tea and vodka drink in 2008.
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