The last couple scenes of the movie also pointed to a big change in the character, especially when he said he'd be ok... The movie wrapped up in a way to make a major personality shift in the subsequent series plausible. It may not have been intended that way, but the way the Abydos mission restored O'Neil's will to live made it believable for the series version to be quite a bit different. Abydos was a life changing mission on the level of the mission where he got stuck in an Iraqi prison for four months.
Way back in the pilot, the Goa'uld Klorel took the Abydonian boy Skaara as a host. In the episode Pretense, Skaara briefly was able to take control of his body again, after a crash landing on the Tollan/Nox world, and pleaded with the Tollan to give him full control and remove Klorel. At the end of the Triad, Skaara was given the body, and Klorel was removed and sent to a Goa'uld world of his choice. Skaara returned to Abydos and eventually ascended in the aftermath of Anubis' assault on that world.
Skaara is ascended. Klorel's fate is unspecified, and if alive he probably holds a very serious grudge against SG-1.
"I basically like the show, but I get annoyed by the fact that every body they encounter speaks English. On Star Trek they explain this through their universal translator comm badges or something, but I've never heard of the explanation for SG1. It's like every mission they have to painfully explain that they come from "Earth", but otherwise they have the same names for everything. it's stupid."
The MGM FAQ explains this. They don't want to spend 15 minutes every episode working through the language barrier, so they ignore it unless its particularly important to that episodes plot. Personally, I'd rather it be ignored than have some sort of universal translator that never has its basis of operation explained.
"Also, if the gate is there and they've made all sorts of contact with other worlds, why aren't there more aliens wandering around the SGC? and why arent there more earth people permanently relocating to other worlds like Daniel tried to do when he fell in love in the original movie? Wouldn't it be a better show if there was regular travel between different people in different places? How about establishing regular trade between worlds? Stuff like that."
Most "aliens" are aliens in the earth legal sense- they are human, just born somewhere else. Several have taken up residence on Earth. There have been very few species encountered that are obviously different, and most of them simply have no interest in simply hanging out on Earth. Others, such as the Enkarans, would suffer serious medical problems if they stay on earth more than a few days. Just because humans can survive in their environment doesn't mean they can survive in humans environment- look at Earth species for instance. Humans can survive in the tundra and in the desert. But take a tiger from the deserts of africa and throw him in northern canada, he won't last long. By the same token, a polar bear won't last terribly long in the desert. The main biological advantage of humans is adaptability... we have a body design and mental capacity that allow us to function in a much wider variety of environments than most other species. It is quite possible that this advantage would hold over other sentient species on other planets.
As for earth people staying offworld, there aren't many earth people who even know of the Stargate, much less have an opportunity to go through it and find a place they want to move to. Col Maybourne an exception...
"and I think they should resolve and kill off the ancient egyptian stuff once and for all. it's a crutch for the series, it's boring and lame at this point. the threat of the goauld should be reduced in importance and they should do more exploring. the way the series looks, it's like the goauld has a big presence in almost every other planet than earth."
The reason the Goa'uld are on almost every human planet is referenced constantly... It was the Goa'uld who transported humans to other worlds as slaves in the first place.
Sci Fi airs each season of Stargate in two chunks, one over the summer and the next several months later when they are done rerunning all the first chunk episodes. So the renewal has nothing to do with whether or not you will see the sequel episode to The Storm.
It was facing cancellation after seasons 5, 6, and 7. I don't think there was any original plan to end it at 7, just to keep doing it as long as they could come up with stories and get someone to run it.
Actually, as for Dr Frasiers death, that wasn't the original plan. THat was supposed to be a light hearted somewhat humorous episode, but the writing ended up going off in its own direction. Personally I think it was a brilliant decision, it brought the series back to earth(figuratively). Sure, random noname good guys had died, and even a few that were important to that specific episode, but to show that it really is a war you have to eventually kill off someone the fans care about. Dr Frasier was a good choice... major enough the fans would care, but minor enough the show wouldn't be irreperably harmed by her absence.
Sure, they did kill off Dr Jackson, but he wasn't actually killed, and it wasn't in the heat of battle that he went down either, so while it certainly provoked a strong fan reaction, it wasnt' as significant in terms of showing that humanity really is fighting for its very existence.
Things are going to heat up in the latter half of this season, but there are still some threads that need tying up. Klorel for one, he needs to be dealt with to fully resolve the Apophis storyline. The Aschen arc was supposed to be three episodes. I also don't see the Replicators being finished up this season. And... Think back to "The Fifth Race". I think it would be a great final episode for O'Neill, Thor, the Nox chick, some Furling, and Oma Desala to meet at Ernests planet, or perhaps the place where O'Neill first downloaded the ancient library, to restore the old alliance and admit humanity.
Ok, I knew ALSA was a big improvement over the past sound systems in Linux, I just didn't know this little bit about it. In that case, the OS itself should be ready, just need to get the apps(and this one is a big step towards needed application support.
If not, its going to be problematic. You can work without ASIO, but the much lower latency of ASIO makes things much easier, you can drop latency by at least one order of magnitude, and that will be noticeable.
IIRC, Cubase supports ReWire. So you don't have to go do something in reason, then bring it up in cubase... just run cubase as your sequencer, and have Reason up in another window, cubase will send commands to reason and the appropriate sounds will come up.
I primarily use Reason as a slave device under Fruity Loops, again via ReWire. Then slaving ReBirth to Reason via ReWire, so I can use the Scream 4 on the 303s for some really cool sounds.
The best thing? Not the ease of use(thought that is nice)... Full VST, Dxi, Rewire, and MIDI support for extending it with hardware and software. It can remain the centerpiece of your digital studio long after you've grown out of whats included.
I don't go there unless I either know the exact item(down to specific model number) I want, or know enough about the class of items and my needs to make an informed decision on my own. If I don't know enough, I do research online, determine the exact item I want or learn enough to judge when I get to the store. The only questions I bother to ask are things like "what shelf are the sound cards on".
If you restrict your trips to Best Buy to those situations, where the only questions you will ask are how to navigate the store, you can do pretty well for your money.
Kerry did state during the second debate, that while he felt the treaty was flawed, it was not without hope. His plan was to get back to negotiations and attempt to fix the problems.
He didn't get more specific than that, but he did make it clear he supported the ideas and intent behind Kyoto, though he disagreed with the way it was implemented.
The problem with hunger isn't the amount of food... we've got plenty. Its distributing it better. That is a problem that will require a lot of money, time, and diplomatic work to solve. And possibly a few wars along the way.
How has the USA PATRIOT Act affected you, personally?
Lost faith in the Republican party.
How has it interfered with your personal and professional life?
I have not applied for any jobs at a library, despite the fact that I'd like such a job, on the off chance that the FBI would come by for some records and I'd get thrown in jail for obstruction of justice.
As a smoker, I might try this if it hits the shelves in the USA. Assuming I haven't quit by then.
If they can get the prices down near regular cigarettes(possbily by dodging the insane taxes), it could help reduce the health problems I'm sure to face over the next 10-30 years or so.
If correlation does not indicate causation, then what about aspirin? How do I know that taking it is the cause of my headache going away, and its not just a lucky coincidence?
Pretty much all science is based on correlation. Sure, there is background work and lots of studies, but how do we know those studies didn't show what they did just through lucky coincidence?
Correlation does not always mean causation, I'll grant that much. But it is a pretty damn good indicator of it, in reality its the only indicator we have.
nimpressive package that does word processing, spreadsheets, boring presentations, and a seldom used database would be sold for $400.
Have you used MS Office in the last 5 years? Hell, in the last 10 years? MS Word does just about anything you would want to do to a word processing document except fold it up and mail it. Power Point is incredibly powerful if used well(sadly, most people go for flash rather than substance, but that is not MS's fault). Excel can easily run a companies books. And Access is incredibly common... It is far from seldom used. Demand for access programmers is sufficient that you can easily make 40-60 an hour just for doing the coding... if they want you do do anything beyond the lowest level detailed design, you can start talking about a hundered an hour and not be hurting for work.
Should it be 400 dollars? Probably not, or at the very least there should be a discounted version available that doesn't include the insane feature set that includes stuff thats critical for one person but completely irrelevant to everyone else. But to say Office is unimpressive, well you obviously haven't paid much attention to what it can do.
" either pure antimatter bombs or antimatter-triggered nuclear weapons; the former wouldn't emit radioactive fallout"
Good and bad. Good is no radioactive fallout... the long term consequences of their use, and the collateral damage, are dramatically reduced.
But thats bad too, since lower consequences will likely mean more likely to use.
The vast power of a small amount is also troubling. How easy would it be to use a small amount? Sure, any amount would cause a boom, but it might not be practical to weaponize small quantities with the difficulties of safely containing antimatter for long term use. From the article, micrograms are only equivalent to about 83 pounds of TNT, so if amounts that small can be safely and effectively weaponized it could be useful. On the other hand, how far does that initial gamma ray burst travel?
Interesting technology, but there are serious questions.
Add licensing deals. the Virgin deal is one, and it is not exclusive, meaning they will be able to license the tech to other companies too.
The name recognition alone to Scaled Composites will help them even outside their space vehicles. That will get them loads of money even if they never build another spacecraft and retire the one they already have. You need a custom aircraft designed- Scaled Composites will be up in peoples minds simply because they've hit CNN, and their space success will give them credibility as a design firm to people who might remember the aroudn the world deal, but wonder what they have done lately.(whether said credibility is or is not deserved, is for another discussion. the point is they will have it)
They will make back the remaining 15 million and then some from this.
While trusted computing for general purpose home PCs is a dangerous concept for civil liberties, trusted computing does have places I think could be very useful.
Corporate PCs and servers. With a hardware enforced trusted computing policy, it will be much harder for users to bork the corporate network by installing a virus and spyware ridden warez game or weather bug thing.
Safety critical systems could also benefit, to prevent user modifications that could cause the system to operate in an unsafe manner.
Trusted Computing certainly isn't a cureall even in these cases, but its not a completely evil thing. It does have legitimate uses.
Good, I don't know. When I have to use COBOL, I use Kobol, you can get it at www.thekompany.com . It costs 60 bucks, but you can download it any number of times, you can download all versions(currently Linux and Windows, Mac OSX supposedly is due soon) and all future updates. And it works. The IDE is simple but well done, it works by converting your cobol to a frighteningly ugly C++ program and feeding that to G++. It requires Cygwin for the windows version...
The manual is utter shit, but you do get access to a pretty good mailing list that covers the language(at an intermediate to advanced level) and the environment, so its not like you are toast if you get confused.
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The last couple scenes of the movie also pointed to a big change in the character, especially when he said he'd be ok... The movie wrapped up in a way to make a major personality shift in the subsequent series plausible. It may not have been intended that way, but the way the Abydos mission restored O'Neil's will to live made it believable for the series version to be quite a bit different. Abydos was a life changing mission on the level of the mission where he got stuck in an Iraqi prison for four months.
No, he isn't.
Way back in the pilot, the Goa'uld Klorel took the Abydonian boy Skaara as a host. In the episode Pretense, Skaara briefly was able to take control of his body again, after a crash landing on the Tollan/Nox world, and pleaded with the Tollan to give him full control and remove Klorel. At the end of the Triad, Skaara was given the body, and Klorel was removed and sent to a Goa'uld world of his choice. Skaara returned to Abydos and eventually ascended in the aftermath of Anubis' assault on that world.
Skaara is ascended. Klorel's fate is unspecified, and if alive he probably holds a very serious grudge against SG-1.
"I basically like the show, but I get annoyed by the fact that every body they encounter speaks English. On Star Trek they explain this through their universal translator comm badges or something, but I've never heard of the explanation for SG1. It's like every mission they have to painfully explain that they come from "Earth", but otherwise they have the same names for everything. it's stupid."
The MGM FAQ explains this. They don't want to spend 15 minutes every episode working through the language barrier, so they ignore it unless its particularly important to that episodes plot. Personally, I'd rather it be ignored than have some sort of universal translator that never has its basis of operation explained.
"Also, if the gate is there and they've made all sorts of contact with other worlds, why aren't there more aliens wandering around the SGC? and why arent there more earth people permanently relocating to other worlds like Daniel tried to do when he fell in love in the original movie? Wouldn't it be a better show if there was regular travel between different people in different places? How about establishing regular trade between worlds? Stuff like that."
Most "aliens" are aliens in the earth legal sense- they are human, just born somewhere else. Several have taken up residence on Earth. There have been very few species encountered that are obviously different, and most of them simply have no interest in simply hanging out on Earth. Others, such as the Enkarans, would suffer serious medical problems if they stay on earth more than a few days. Just because humans can survive in their environment doesn't mean they can survive in humans environment- look at Earth species for instance. Humans can survive in the tundra and in the desert. But take a tiger from the deserts of africa and throw him in northern canada, he won't last long. By the same token, a polar bear won't last terribly long in the desert. The main biological advantage of humans is adaptability... we have a body design and mental capacity that allow us to function in a much wider variety of environments than most other species. It is quite possible that this advantage would hold over other sentient species on other planets.
As for earth people staying offworld, there aren't many earth people who even know of the Stargate, much less have an opportunity to go through it and find a place they want to move to. Col Maybourne an exception...
"and I think they should resolve and kill off the ancient egyptian stuff once and for all. it's a crutch for the series, it's boring and lame at this point. the threat of the goauld should be reduced in importance and they should do more exploring. the way the series looks, it's like the goauld has a big presence in almost every other planet than earth."
The reason the Goa'uld are on almost every human planet is referenced constantly... It was the Goa'uld who transported humans to other worlds as slaves in the first place.
Sci Fi airs each season of Stargate in two chunks, one over the summer and the next several months later when they are done rerunning all the first chunk episodes. So the renewal has nothing to do with whether or not you will see the sequel episode to The Storm.
It was facing cancellation after seasons 5, 6, and 7. I don't think there was any original plan to end it at 7, just to keep doing it as long as they could come up with stories and get someone to run it.
Actually, as for Dr Frasiers death, that wasn't the original plan. THat was supposed to be a light hearted somewhat humorous episode, but the writing ended up going off in its own direction. Personally I think it was a brilliant decision, it brought the series back to earth(figuratively). Sure, random noname good guys had died, and even a few that were important to that specific episode, but to show that it really is a war you have to eventually kill off someone the fans care about. Dr Frasier was a good choice... major enough the fans would care, but minor enough the show wouldn't be irreperably harmed by her absence.
Sure, they did kill off Dr Jackson, but he wasn't actually killed, and it wasn't in the heat of battle that he went down either, so while it certainly provoked a strong fan reaction, it wasnt' as significant in terms of showing that humanity really is fighting for its very existence.
Things are going to heat up in the latter half of this season, but there are still some threads that need tying up. Klorel for one, he needs to be dealt with to fully resolve the Apophis storyline. The Aschen arc was supposed to be three episodes. I also don't see the Replicators being finished up this season. And... Think back to "The Fifth Race". I think it would be a great final episode for O'Neill, Thor, the Nox chick, some Furling, and Oma Desala to meet at Ernests planet, or perhaps the place where O'Neill first downloaded the ancient library, to restore the old alliance and admit humanity.
Ok, I knew ALSA was a big improvement over the past sound systems in Linux, I just didn't know this little bit about it. In that case, the OS itself should be ready, just need to get the apps(and this one is a big step towards needed application support.
Thanks for the update.
Does Linux have ASIO support?
If not, its going to be problematic. You can work without ASIO, but the much lower latency of ASIO makes things much easier, you can drop latency by at least one order of magnitude, and that will be noticeable.
IIRC, Cubase supports ReWire. So you don't have to go do something in reason, then bring it up in cubase... just run cubase as your sequencer, and have Reason up in another window, cubase will send commands to reason and the appropriate sounds will come up.
I primarily use Reason as a slave device under Fruity Loops, again via ReWire. Then slaving ReBirth to Reason via ReWire, so I can use the Scream 4 on the 303s for some really cool sounds.
"there's absolutely no need to rtfm."
Actually, I've run into the need to RTFM. But, again to Fruity Loop's credit, the help file is actually HELPFUL!
Had trouble syncing up a drum loop... brought up the help file and found what I needed right off the bat and got on with my music.
Fruity Loops rocks.
The best thing? Not the ease of use(thought that is nice)... Full VST, Dxi, Rewire, and MIDI support for extending it with hardware and software. It can remain the centerpiece of your digital studio long after you've grown out of whats included.
I don't go there unless I either know the exact item(down to specific model number) I want, or know enough about the class of items and my needs to make an informed decision on my own. If I don't know enough, I do research online, determine the exact item I want or learn enough to judge when I get to the store. The only questions I bother to ask are things like "what shelf are the sound cards on".
If you restrict your trips to Best Buy to those situations, where the only questions you will ask are how to navigate the store, you can do pretty well for your money.
Kerry did state during the second debate, that while he felt the treaty was flawed, it was not without hope. His plan was to get back to negotiations and attempt to fix the problems.
He didn't get more specific than that, but he did make it clear he supported the ideas and intent behind Kyoto, though he disagreed with the way it was implemented.
Bush said in one of the debates he would oppose it. There is nothing new here. Whats next, "Linus Torvalds writes some more C code"?
The problem with hunger isn't the amount of food... we've got plenty. Its distributing it better. That is a problem that will require a lot of money, time, and diplomatic work to solve. And possibly a few wars along the way.
How has the USA PATRIOT Act affected you, personally?
Lost faith in the Republican party.
How has it interfered with your personal and professional life?
I have not applied for any jobs at a library, despite the fact that I'd like such a job, on the off chance that the FBI would come by for some records and I'd get thrown in jail for obstruction of justice.
Has this act influenced your Presidential vote?
Yes.
As a smoker, I might try this if it hits the shelves in the USA. Assuming I haven't quit by then.
If they can get the prices down near regular cigarettes(possbily by dodging the insane taxes), it could help reduce the health problems I'm sure to face over the next 10-30 years or so.
That phrase is thrown out too often.
If correlation does not indicate causation, then what about aspirin? How do I know that taking it is the cause of my headache going away, and its not just a lucky coincidence?
Pretty much all science is based on correlation. Sure, there is background work and lots of studies, but how do we know those studies didn't show what they did just through lucky coincidence?
Correlation does not always mean causation, I'll grant that much. But it is a pretty damn good indicator of it, in reality its the only indicator we have.
to see the words "produce" and "develop" applied to living things?
nimpressive package that does word processing, spreadsheets, boring presentations, and a seldom used database would be sold for $400.
Have you used MS Office in the last 5 years? Hell, in the last 10 years? MS Word does just about anything you would want to do to a word processing document except fold it up and mail it. Power Point is incredibly powerful if used well(sadly, most people go for flash rather than substance, but that is not MS's fault). Excel can easily run a companies books. And Access is incredibly common... It is far from seldom used. Demand for access programmers is sufficient that you can easily make 40-60 an hour just for doing the coding... if they want you do do anything beyond the lowest level detailed design, you can start talking about a hundered an hour and not be hurting for work.
Should it be 400 dollars? Probably not, or at the very least there should be a discounted version available that doesn't include the insane feature set that includes stuff thats critical for one person but completely irrelevant to everyone else. But to say Office is unimpressive, well you obviously haven't paid much attention to what it can do.
But installing software on your employers computers without permission to do so, should be an offense worthy of firing.
Would you get pissed if someone installed something on your computer without permission to do so? I would.
" either pure antimatter bombs or antimatter-triggered nuclear weapons; the former wouldn't emit radioactive fallout"
Good and bad. Good is no radioactive fallout... the long term consequences of their use, and the collateral damage, are dramatically reduced.
But thats bad too, since lower consequences will likely mean more likely to use.
The vast power of a small amount is also troubling. How easy would it be to use a small amount? Sure, any amount would cause a boom, but it might not be practical to weaponize small quantities with the difficulties of safely containing antimatter for long term use. From the article, micrograms are only equivalent to about 83 pounds of TNT, so if amounts that small can be safely and effectively weaponized it could be useful. On the other hand, how far does that initial gamma ray burst travel?
Interesting technology, but there are serious questions.
Add licensing deals. the Virgin deal is one, and it is not exclusive, meaning they will be able to license the tech to other companies too.
The name recognition alone to Scaled Composites will help them even outside their space vehicles. That will get them loads of money even if they never build another spacecraft and retire the one they already have. You need a custom aircraft designed- Scaled Composites will be up in peoples minds simply because they've hit CNN, and their space success will give them credibility as a design firm to people who might remember the aroudn the world deal, but wonder what they have done lately.(whether said credibility is or is not deserved, is for another discussion. the point is they will have it)
They will make back the remaining 15 million and then some from this.
While trusted computing for general purpose home PCs is a dangerous concept for civil liberties, trusted computing does have places I think could be very useful.
Corporate PCs and servers. With a hardware enforced trusted computing policy, it will be much harder for users to bork the corporate network by installing a virus and spyware ridden warez game or weather bug thing.
Safety critical systems could also benefit, to prevent user modifications that could cause the system to operate in an unsafe manner.
Trusted Computing certainly isn't a cureall even in these cases, but its not a completely evil thing. It does have legitimate uses.
Good, I don't know. When I have to use COBOL, I use Kobol, you can get it at www.thekompany.com . It costs 60 bucks, but you can download it any number of times, you can download all versions(currently Linux and Windows, Mac OSX supposedly is due soon) and all future updates. And it works. The IDE is simple but well done, it works by converting your cobol to a frighteningly ugly C++ program and feeding that to G++. It requires Cygwin for the windows version...
The manual is utter shit, but you do get access to a pretty good mailing list that covers the language(at an intermediate to advanced level) and the environment, so its not like you are toast if you get confused.