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Damn, I'm glad I got HBO and my TiVo-like thingy from my cable company to see the series when I want to. Oh yeah: NETWORK TELEVISION SUCKS!!! The only good channels are the ones past ch50.
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*cough* *cough* Family Guy resurrected because of DVD sales *cough*
Someday, some hacker will write a good Mac virus (or at least a virus that is compatible with Mac) just to shut you guys up! Oh, I will laugh my head off that day.
Sure, I use Linux, but I'm not arrogant enough to think that worms won't exist on Linux if Linux had 98% of the market share.
Oh, really. Where's the leaked Doom3 alpha or Half-Life 2 code? No idiot in his right (or wrong) mind is going to risk putting up illegal source code for an insanely popular product! Even if the copyright doesn't kill him, his monthly bandwidth bill will.
Get it on Kazaa or some other file-sharing client.
The only good recent U.S. imports as far as I see are Simpsons (which despite lagging sometimes, is still capable of brilliant moments) and to a lesser degree, Futurama. I used to enjoy Friends, but it's long past its sell-by date! (as are the cast... they look TERRIBLE in the latest episodes)
Family Guy has never disappointed me, especially since watching the DVDs. As much as it would cause much flames, it's even better than the Simpsons.
Sliders sucked. It was designed by somebody who watched Back to the Future a few too many times and decided to make a series out of it without making a direct BttF series. Every time they entered a new timeline, they basically changed one thing and most everything else was normal. Sure, Eistein never made an atomic bomb, but every other piece of technology is all there. (I always wanted them to slide into a timeline where gravity was made out of chocolate pudding, and atoms were composed of hexbolts that circle around a nuecleus of jelly donuts and eraserheads.) Also, the episodes were basic TV formulas surrounded by fanatastic solutions to everything and weak plotlines.
Now, if you want a (semi-)sci-fi show to bring back, then give me the The Real Ghostbusters. I can't even find these on DVD. Much to my surprise, I found out that most of the episodes were written by none other than JMS, the guy behind Babylon 5.
I, for one, thought that DS9 was -stealing- B5's ideas of a continual storyline, but I still like what they came up with anyway. I was big fan of B5, though. The dialogue can be pretty weak at time, but the story is still top-notch stuff: good vs. evil with plenty of shades of grey.
Not to knock the entirety of Star Trek, but the recent "Franchises" (do you want fries with that?) have been crap. I could barely watch Star Trek: A Three Hour Tour, and Star Trek: Boobies and Scott Bakula was not even worth the John Tesh opening theme. I'm not saying the age old "Ever since Gene died...blah blah blah", but the corporates at Paramont really have taken over and pissed on the whole deal.
There are better sci-fi shows out there: Bablylon 5, Farscape, Stargate SG-1, to name a few. Some are in threat of being cancelled or already in limbo. Support THOSE! Try to revive the GOOD series!
Let Star Trek die the death it has been begging for since ST:DS9 ended. Don't let it drag on. (Flame on!)
> Dear web advertisers - I hate you, I hate you, I hate you.
More wisdom from Bill Hicks:
"By the way... if anybody here is in marketing or advertising, kill yourself. Thank you, just planting seeds, that's all I am doing. No joke here, kill yourself. There is no rationalization for what you do, you are Satan's little helpers, kill yourself, kill yourself kill yourself now." - Bill Hicks (Arizona Bay)
Interesting. However, this support should already be in Mozilla by now. Support/vote these bugs!
19118 Plug-In Manager (ui for choosing mimetype-plugin associations)
38966 Privacy and Security [was Security Policies] pref panel work
64737 Capabilities configurable by trigger
78104 [RFE]block images by directory or by regexp/pattern
93390 [RFE]"Block images from this server" should identify "this server"
Actually, the babelfish was one of the hardest puzzles in the game, and it was fairly early into it, too. I also seem to remember the whole "PUT BIT IN TEA" puzzle being fairly hard as well.
Yes, my parents were playing that game (and Alternate Reality) on the ATARI 800XL. I had vivid memories of being 6-7 years old and learning about Vohgons and depressed androids.
I'd much rather have somebody trespass and tell me about a problem with the security of the place, rather than somebody trespass and steal my stuff without telling me how he got in. Tell me how comfortable you'll feel when you realized that you fucked up and now paid the price.
Hell, with corporations, we're not talking about just one person. We are talking about every employee, and more importantly, every customer that could potentially have their credit cards stolen because some fuckwad at a banking site forgot to lock it down. All he did was say "Hey, the site isn't locked. Here's how to get in and here's how to fix it." If anything, what he did was a community service.
Overall, I don't think we're really debating what he did was illegal, but the fact that he'll be facing a punishment that does NOT fit the crime.
Consider the break up of AT&T. The US government broke up a company that was providing high-quality service to almost all Americans. End result? Extreme price reduction, and increased service. Not all government actions are evil. Letting markets and other forces run uncontrolled is not always a good idea.
That's only because it's built on a flawed system (capitalism) that is so crippled that it requires government intervention to fix it when it had gone out-of-bounds of the system (monopoly). It's like a broken TV that you have to keep banging on to get the signal out of it, instead of just fixing the problem with it.
I am reminded of the Linksys router debunkle. TiVo is REQUIRED to give out the source code, if somebody asks for it. If you want to use the free source code, you have to follow GPL's rules.
TiVo better hope that they aren't trying to hide any "security by obsurity" subroutines.
The whole "CD versus vinyl" sound quality debate is shattered when you play the vinyl a few times. Whatever extra quality that might have been on the record is already lost when the record needle stratches the relatively soft vinyl. At least light isn't know to do much physical damage.
In any case, I do agree with you that vinyl has made a big comeback with DJs. (Only because the rap industry dropped the ball by allowing themselves to forget about actual music and ditch the DJ...but I digress.) Though, I have heard of CD "stratchers" that do the same thing.
Nice way of rebuting a 7-paragraph 500+-word reply: using a 11-word sentence fragment to counterpoint a very small (and unimportant) statement in said post.
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Damn, I'm glad I got HBO and my TiVo-like thingy from my cable company to see the series when I want to. Oh yeah: NETWORK TELEVISION SUCKS!!! The only good channels are the ones past ch50.
*cough* *cough* Family Guy resurrected because of DVD sales *cough*
Someday, some hacker will write a good Mac virus (or at least a virus that is compatible with Mac) just to shut you guys up! Oh, I will laugh my head off that day.
Sure, I use Linux, but I'm not arrogant enough to think that worms won't exist on Linux if Linux had 98% of the market share.
Oh, really. Where's the leaked Doom3 alpha or Half-Life 2 code? No idiot in his right (or wrong) mind is going to risk putting up illegal source code for an insanely popular product! Even if the copyright doesn't kill him, his monthly bandwidth bill will.
Get it on Kazaa or some other file-sharing client.
Fine, then...force them to release that part of the code to the laywers under a NDA. This is civil court, not criminal court.
One word: Compaq. Remember the IBM chip? Remember clones? Was that derivative work or reverse-engineering?
Normal settlement for each junk fax = $500
Your payment for sending in a junk fax to FaxWars.com = $25
I think I know who's getting the bigger chunk of the money.....
Technically, that's considered printing counterfeit money to which you might be liable (ie: jailed for life). So, don't do that.
The only good recent U.S. imports as far as I see are Simpsons (which despite lagging sometimes, is still capable of brilliant moments) and to a lesser degree, Futurama. I used to enjoy Friends, but it's long past its sell-by date! (as are the cast... they look TERRIBLE in the latest episodes)
Family Guy has never disappointed me, especially since watching the DVDs. As much as it would cause much flames, it's even better than the Simpsons.
Sliders sucked. It was designed by somebody who watched Back to the Future a few too many times and decided to make a series out of it without making a direct BttF series. Every time they entered a new timeline, they basically changed one thing and most everything else was normal. Sure, Eistein never made an atomic bomb, but every other piece of technology is all there. (I always wanted them to slide into a timeline where gravity was made out of chocolate pudding, and atoms were composed of hexbolts that circle around a nuecleus of jelly donuts and eraserheads.) Also, the episodes were basic TV formulas surrounded by fanatastic solutions to everything and weak plotlines.
Now, if you want a (semi-)sci-fi show to bring back, then give me the The Real Ghostbusters. I can't even find these on DVD. Much to my surprise, I found out that most of the episodes were written by none other than JMS, the guy behind Babylon 5.
I, for one, thought that DS9 was -stealing- B5's ideas of a continual storyline, but I still like what they came up with anyway. I was big fan of B5, though. The dialogue can be pretty weak at time, but the story is still top-notch stuff: good vs. evil with plenty of shades of grey.
Good!
Not to knock the entirety of Star Trek, but the recent "Franchises" (do you want fries with that?) have been crap. I could barely watch Star Trek: A Three Hour Tour, and Star Trek: Boobies and Scott Bakula was not even worth the John Tesh opening theme. I'm not saying the age old "Ever since Gene died...blah blah blah", but the corporates at Paramont really have taken over and pissed on the whole deal.
There are better sci-fi shows out there: Bablylon 5, Farscape, Stargate SG-1, to name a few. Some are in threat of being cancelled or already in limbo. Support THOSE! Try to revive the GOOD series!
Let Star Trek die the death it has been begging for since ST:DS9 ended. Don't let it drag on. (Flame on!)
> Dear web advertisers - I hate you, I hate you, I hate you.
More wisdom from Bill Hicks:
"By the way... if anybody here is in marketing or advertising, kill yourself. Thank you, just planting seeds, that's all I am doing. No joke here, kill yourself. There is no rationalization for what you do, you are Satan's little helpers, kill yourself, kill yourself kill yourself now." - Bill Hicks (Arizona Bay)
More like:
10 minutes to write a report to Bugzilla
2 years of waiting, whining, begging, nothing being done, etc.
Interesting. However, this support should already be in Mozilla by now. Support/vote these bugs!
19118 Plug-In Manager (ui for choosing mimetype-plugin associations)
38966 Privacy and Security [was Security Policies] pref panel work
64737 Capabilities configurable by trigger
78104 [RFE]block images by directory or by regexp/pattern
93390 [RFE]"Block images from this server" should identify "this server"
Actually, the babelfish was one of the hardest puzzles in the game, and it was fairly early into it, too. I also seem to remember the whole "PUT BIT IN TEA" puzzle being fairly hard as well.
Yes, my parents were playing that game (and Alternate Reality) on the ATARI 800XL. I had vivid memories of being 6-7 years old and learning about Vohgons and depressed androids.
Ohhhh...so there's actually no zebra involved in crossing the crosswalk/crossing/whatever?
Well, it DID work until some dumbass put it in his blog.
Heh...$300,000 of searches...hmmm, that must have been, what, 3000 years worth of searches? I'm sure that number is just a little off...
I'd much rather have somebody trespass and tell me about a problem with the security of the place, rather than somebody trespass and steal my stuff without telling me how he got in. Tell me how comfortable you'll feel when you realized that you fucked up and now paid the price.
Hell, with corporations, we're not talking about just one person. We are talking about every employee, and more importantly, every customer that could potentially have their credit cards stolen because some fuckwad at a banking site forgot to lock it down. All he did was say "Hey, the site isn't locked. Here's how to get in and here's how to fix it." If anything, what he did was a community service.
Overall, I don't think we're really debating what he did was illegal, but the fact that he'll be facing a punishment that does NOT fit the crime.
Wow...great idea. I'll just have to make sure I don't put my name on it.
Consider the break up of AT&T. The US government broke up a company that was providing high-quality service to almost all Americans. End result? Extreme price reduction, and increased service. Not all government actions are evil. Letting markets and other forces run uncontrolled is not always a good idea.
That's only because it's built on a flawed system (capitalism) that is so crippled that it requires government intervention to fix it when it had gone out-of-bounds of the system (monopoly). It's like a broken TV that you have to keep banging on to get the signal out of it, instead of just fixing the problem with it.
But, I digress...
I am reminded of the Linksys router debunkle. TiVo is REQUIRED to give out the source code, if somebody asks for it. If you want to use the free source code, you have to follow GPL's rules.
TiVo better hope that they aren't trying to hide any "security by obsurity" subroutines.
The whole "CD versus vinyl" sound quality debate is shattered when you play the vinyl a few times. Whatever extra quality that might have been on the record is already lost when the record needle stratches the relatively soft vinyl. At least light isn't know to do much physical damage.
In any case, I do agree with you that vinyl has made a big comeback with DJs. (Only because the rap industry dropped the ball by allowing themselves to forget about actual music and ditch the DJ...but I digress.) Though, I have heard of CD "stratchers" that do the same thing.
Nice way of rebuting a 7-paragraph 500+-word reply: using a 11-word sentence fragment to counterpoint a very small (and unimportant) statement in said post.