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Here's a better picture. When they moved O'Brien from TNG to DS9, they switched his uniform to a more muted style (predominately black with a little bit of color):

http://www.vidiot.com/st-ds9/images/DS9CastCM01.jpg

The real question is how the UPN during its first season of existance compares to the Sci-fi channel of today in terms of viewers. The UPN shows were always at the absolute bottom of the broadcast ratings back then.

Voyager was UPN's #1 show, which is how they kept it on for so long despite its perceived lack of quality. (I actually liked it; it was certainly no worse than most episodes of TNG or the soap opera that was DS9.)

According to this site (and I can't vouch, but it seems accurate to what I remember), Voyager at one point had a rating of 7.9. Contrast that with BSG's 1.2.

"A relational file systems is the next generation of OS design and a necessary evolution of the concept."

A flying car is the next generation of automobile design and a necessary evolution of the concept.

"Put it this way, your computer stores hundreds of thousands of files, the current paradigm of treating them as files stored in a folder tree is absolutely antiquated and ridiculous."

Put it this way, your automobile covers hundreds or thousands of miles, the current paradigm of running it on tarmac road surfaces is absolutely antiquated and ridiculous.

"I should be able to ask my operating system, "Show me all my picture files", and it simply can list ALL the image files on my computer, regardless of how or where they are stored."

I should be able to ask my car "Fly me to this destination", and it simply can fly me to ALL destinations in the world, regardless of how far away or where they are.

On a slightly different tack:

"Also, why do we even have to name files?"

OK, so you want some super-duper metadata-based storage system, but you don't even want to bother giving the file a name ? And how is a database-based file system going to store files without some sort of unique primary key (such as the full pathname) ?

".....Why do we have to give them a file extension. These are all antiquated file system concepts which are completely meaningless for a modern OS."

So something that all popular modern OS-es use is completely meaningless for a modern OS ?

"An extension was a cheap way to get the OS to launch or open a file related to a specific program, but it would be completely unnecessary if the file itself embedded its type or had an entry in a database record. The name of a file would purely be a description and only one of many ways to identify a file."

Do some reading-up on how the Unix/Linux "file" command works.

".....and if we EVER want something like what we have seen in Star Trek, where people can ask a computer real language queries, we NEED a relational file system."

The only thing I've ever wanted that I've seen in star trek is this (and it doesn't rely on a relational file system).

OK, OK, I'm kidding :)

Ah, yes. Now others will experience the same horror I did when my favorite UPN show (Nowhere Man), was replaced with this...

Fuck the shuttle, we need to send The Homeboys

• Wild feeds are unencrypted programming, often with fewer or no commercials, and sometimes air in advance of their regular timeslots.
• Regular listings are mostly encrypted and by subscription, but there's no shortage of programming here either.
• And I won't go into 4DTV since I don't know much about it.

The encryption providers moan every year about having to raise the rates due to the declining number of subscribers, but this is self-fulfilling on their part since they aren't promoting the technology. It works great and it should continue to do so for quite some time.

(Did you notice I said "every year"? This isn't like cable, where you pay for it every month. One payment a year does the trick.)

The wildfeeds are where I get my advance Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy information, as posted here. It surprises people, but this information is in the clear for anybody to receive...

I wish somebody knew how to build a Freevo for the BUD, though.

Didn't see any screenshots, but it sounds like it might be fun to watch.

There's one at vidiot. (PDF link)

WRITERS
David Sacks ("The Simpsons"), Ross Venokur,Jason Venokur and David Goetsch

And some pictures here (pdf)

You might be sad to note that an hour of Birds of Prey is currently only 39:47.
The site has some interesting comments and facts on commercials growth. I'm only missing a graph showing how it increases by time, but everyone must have noticed that this is manipulated in many ways for example by having less commercials than normal in the opening episodes of 24^2 which of course will backlash by more than that amount in the conclusive episodes...

Even though premieres would sync up to us here in Europe I suspect that I would still find my shows on the net with the ads pre-cut.

Paramount has been playing all sorts of tricks with the UPN Voyager and Enterprise feeds at least since Mid to Late 1999, It's old news to me.

The interesting thing here is that the Enterprise Feeds sent to Canada, on Telstar 5 TP 16 for broadcast say on A-Channel don't have this

What we know is that this is lucurative, and people who can't compare the two will not know what it is that they are missing.

I suppose that these people will have to get a new name.

Paramount has been playing all sorts of tricks with the UPN Voyager and Enterprise feeds at least since Mid to Late 1999, It's old news to me.

The interesting thing here is that the Enterprise Feeds sent to Canada, on Telstar 5 TP 16 for broadcast say on A-Channel don't have this

What we know is that this is lucurative, and people who can't compare the two will not know what it is that they are missing.

I suppose that these people will have to get a new name.

Paramount has been playing all sorts of tricks with the UPN Voyager and Enterprise feeds at least since Mid to Late 1999, It's old news to me.

The interesting thing here is that the Enterprise Feeds sent to Canada, on Telstar 5 TP 16 for broadcast say on A-Channel don't have this

What we know is that this is lucurative, and people who can't compare the two will not know what it is that they are missing.

I suppose that these people will have to get a new name.

I guess I am the only one who liked the contrast from the older series. I thought it was pretty good.

The closing credits are actully an 'orchestra' version of the opening. You can find the opening/close here

It was daring to break with the past, and I think that it works, and carries well with the theme for the show.

Right here, but I think those two download sites are overloaded! I believe the video file is in MPEG format. I still can't download from either site. :(

Yeah, it's windowmaker, and the buzz has been floating around for half a year since promos started getting aired. Here's an mpeg of the show's lineup, and you can clearly see it's at least some variant of unix, probably linux.