Guess what the big surprise twist in 24 Season 3 was? The fact that Nina Myers rocks up when you're least expecting her. Shock factor++ for fans. What does channel seven do 5 seconds before the show starts? Voiceover: "Nina Myers returns to 24...Now!" - show start.
I almost threw something at the tv. I spent the entire episode wondering how they were going to bring her in and I wasn't surprised when she showed up. Thanks a lot.
One of the many reasons why I've avoided (hard as it is!) watching 24 this season and will rent/buy it on DVD instead.
Kinda like Jadzia Dax from DS9 - the hussy who quit DS9 just before the last season because she wanted more money
The jury's still out on why she quit DS9, though the reason cited most often was that she wanted a starring role in Becker (crap sitcom on a "real" network) that year.
It's not a red herring when talking about blocking access to unauthorized copies.
Because sometimes even if the copies are unauthorized, they can be legal, thanks to Fair Use. Unauthorized != illegal.
Not necessarily. mp3.com learned the hard way that even though the users could prove they owned the mp3s they were downloading, the transfer of mp3s was unauthorized, and thus mp3.com was gutted and bought out.
Please tell me that Christopher Lee will be singing and dancing in this. It's been 21 years since his last singing role, I'm sure Saruman has a great voice!
According to Gates the hardware will soon be free and the money spent on a computer will all go to software.
This is worrying. This is opposite to how I work, but I get the feeling that if we're not careful it'll go that way.
I think it's certainly possible to go this way with artificial costs added to increase the price of software. I worry that legal constructs like software patents will do this, driving up the price of software in general, and breaking free software interoperability.
Software patents are the biggest threats weilded by "Linux's enemies."
That doesn't seem very clever either. What if there's an app that catches mousedowns?
The app doesn't see it. The left+right = middle isn't an application or library routine, it's done within the input layer of the X server. All the app sees is "middle mouse button pressed, middle mouse button released."
4) Try real, quicktime, wmv, shockwave, flash: all work (yes, on my Slack!, without tweeking!)
They work, just not very well. The Quicktime Crossover plugin is extremely slow (though it works), and the various open source plugins I've seen have been of poor quality. Flash works, but there's a difference between "working" and "working well." Flash does not "work well." It is slow and uses far more CPU power under Linux than it does on other operating systems. Wmv also doesn't "work well," mostly due to the plugin issues. I wish the mplayer plugin or xine plugins were reliable and well-designed, but anything that is just a shell around an external program instead of being designed as a plugin is going to have problems.
Free software is about scratching your own itch, for some people it's KDE, for some Gnome, XFce or Screen, there is no war, each borrows from the other, tries to get an improved user experiance, and both improve.
This also makes it difficult to develop for. It is a chaotic and moving target. I used to be a big advocate for diversity of desktop environments and libraries, but over the years I've found the downsides are matching the upsides.
Oh, sure, they may be able to click on the blue 'e' on their desktop to get to yahoo.com, but is that really using windows?
In a way, yes it is. One of the goals of the operating system is to manage applications, and if the user doesn't have to fiddle with the operating system, then the OS is doing a good job "staying out of the way." An OS should require very little user maintenance.
Dell has some of the best designed cases on the market
You're kidding me, right? They may have a number of things going for them, but that terrible swing-open case is not one of them. IBM unfortunately has been slipping in case design as well. Amazingly, for workstations it seems like the most well-designed cases come from HP.
You forgot to mention forrest fires, but they, like mudslides, are always man-made disasters, and are also easily avoided, and very rarely result in fatalities.
They're not always man-made. Quite often they are started by lightning strikes.
The difference being you control what is played. And the quality of music is likely to be much higher (or lower, if you have poorer taste in music than ClearChannel does).
Most movies have always sucked. For every 2001 or Blade Runner there are two or three Spacehunters or Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity.
Yes, but those movies weren't very popular.
How many of the blockbuster movies of the 90s will be remembered a decade from now the way we still watch Blade Runner or 2001 now? I don't think Armageddon will be held with the same reverence as Raiders of the Lost Ark currently is.
I agree that blind nostalgia for the days of yesteryear is usually replaced, but I have to admit that the blockbusters of the 90s were simply not very good. Their fundamental natures were changed by the Jerry Bruckheimers, the Michael Bays, the Roland Emmerichs. Despite this, I think that the situation has gotten better in the last several years.. now many blockbuster movies are true gems.. The LOTR movies, the Harry Potter movies, Finding Nemo, and so forth. We may be seeing a return to the days where high budget and high profile films have a degree of excellence to them, though we'll still have a number of bombs.. Emmerich and Bay still have jobs after all.
MythTV wasn't hard to get running for you due to design deficiencies in MythTV - It was hard for you to get running due to bad hardware. Every problem you describe with MythTV other than the IR blaster issue looked like non-Myth-specific hardware problems to me.
The hardware itself isn't bad, it's just that driver support and installation under Linux is still pretty primative.
VCRs are still legal. I think the Supreme Court would have a field day with anyone trying to impose the kinds of restrictions you're talking about.
The breadth of copyright is up to Congress, not the Supreme Court, and the Constitution makes that pretty clear. In the Betamax decision, the court ruled that the VCR was legal, but also that that situation could reversed if Congress passed a law. If Congress wants to criminalize unapproved PVRs, that's under their scope. Is the Supreme Court supposed to say "well, I know the Constitution says they can pass any laws related to copyright, but.. that's just wrong!"
If you'd like to get rid of most of the pointless reactionary sensationized stories, go into your preferences and disable the showing of any "Your Rights Online" story. Or pretty much any story posted by Timothy.
Are you on crack? The shuttle system use heatpipes to cool CPUs and some of them don't have fans at all (although the latest ones do have fans that dynamically ramp their speed to precisely the amount necessary wich makes them very quiet). The main problem with noise in my XPC is the hard drive.
I never found the Shuttle boxes I used to be particularly quiet. In fact it was the dynamically ramped fan speed that made them seem so loud -- with a constant speed you tend to tune it out. However, if the fan was often changing speed like mine was, the variations in pitch and volume were quite noticable, and even the low-level sound wasn't whisper quiet like the box claimed. The cases based off the nforce chipset were particularly bad, but I noticed mine with the via chipset was still rather loud. Now, my Condor PC small form factor.. that one is very quiet. Never any dynamic variations in CPU, even if it's chugging away.
Nope. Cows are much stupid than horses and many other domestic animals. Thousands of years of specialized breeding to create an animal that did not need intelligence.
You may disagree with what the ACLU did. That's your choice. I happen to disagree with the ACLU for its refusal to support the 2nd amendment. I'm not pro-guns, but I think the ACLU is showing its bias in its refusal to protect only some of our constitutional rights.
Honestly, I'm with the ACLU on this one.. not due to being anti-gun (I'm favorable on the 2nd amendment), but because the ACLU has a pretty limited amount of resources, so they have to pick what fights to take. Without their help, the second amendment is by far most protected of all of our constitutional rights (though it's also the one under the most visible assault). The NRA does a good job of protecting gun owners' rights. There are many other rights that are not nearly as well defended (or defended at all). So while I disagree with the ACLU stance on the second amendment, I wouldn't want them wasting their money on something the NRA can do better.
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I almost threw something at the tv. I spent the entire episode wondering how they were going to bring her in and I wasn't surprised when she showed up. Thanks a lot.
One of the many reasons why I've avoided (hard as it is!) watching 24 this season and will rent/buy it on DVD instead.
"Burdon of proof." Hahaha, how quaint! You probably believe in the Geneva Convention, too.
There are quite a few NASA supporters who think the aged, underperforming and overpriced shuttle program should be canceled as well.
The jury's still out on why she quit DS9, though the reason cited most often was that she wanted a starring role in Becker (crap sitcom on a "real" network) that year.
He performed every character as well on stage in a one-man show.
Because sometimes even if the copies are unauthorized, they can be legal, thanks to Fair Use. Unauthorized != illegal.
Not necessarily. mp3.com learned the hard way that even though the users could prove they owned the mp3s they were downloading, the transfer of mp3s was unauthorized, and thus mp3.com was gutted and bought out.
I think it's certainly possible to go this way with artificial costs added to increase the price of software. I worry that legal constructs like software patents will do this, driving up the price of software in general, and breaking free software interoperability.
Software patents are the biggest threats weilded by "Linux's enemies."
The app doesn't see it. The left+right = middle isn't an application or library routine, it's done within the input layer of the X server. All the app sees is "middle mouse button pressed, middle mouse button released."
They work, just not very well. The Quicktime Crossover plugin is extremely slow (though it works), and the various open source plugins I've seen have been of poor quality. Flash works, but there's a difference between "working" and "working well." Flash does not "work well." It is slow and uses far more CPU power under Linux than it does on other operating systems. Wmv also doesn't "work well," mostly due to the plugin issues. I wish the mplayer plugin or xine plugins were reliable and well-designed, but anything that is just a shell around an external program instead of being designed as a plugin is going to have problems.
Free software is about scratching your own itch, for some people it's KDE, for some Gnome, XFce or Screen, there is no war, each borrows from the other, tries to get an improved user experiance, and both improve.
This also makes it difficult to develop for. It is a chaotic and moving target. I used to be a big advocate for diversity of desktop environments and libraries, but over the years I've found the downsides are matching the upsides.
In a way, yes it is. One of the goals of the operating system is to manage applications, and if the user doesn't have to fiddle with the operating system, then the OS is doing a good job "staying out of the way." An OS should require very little user maintenance.
You're kidding me, right? They may have a number of things going for them, but that terrible swing-open case is not one of them. IBM unfortunately has been slipping in case design as well. Amazingly, for workstations it seems like the most well-designed cases come from HP.
Aaah, I see.. no actually I agree with you completely on that.
There are two things you can do:
1) Allow small fires to burn.
2) Extinguish them and clear out the brush and dead trees and crap from the forests.
We pick neither option.
They're not always man-made. Quite often they are started by lightning strikes.
The difference being you control what is played. And the quality of music is likely to be much higher (or lower, if you have poorer taste in music than ClearChannel does).
Yes, but those movies weren't very popular.
How many of the blockbuster movies of the 90s will be remembered a decade from now the way we still watch Blade Runner or 2001 now? I don't think Armageddon will be held with the same reverence as Raiders of the Lost Ark currently is.
I agree that blind nostalgia for the days of yesteryear is usually replaced, but I have to admit that the blockbusters of the 90s were simply not very good. Their fundamental natures were changed by the Jerry Bruckheimers, the Michael Bays, the Roland Emmerichs. Despite this, I think that the situation has gotten better in the last several years.. now many blockbuster movies are true gems.. The LOTR movies, the Harry Potter movies, Finding Nemo, and so forth. We may be seeing a return to the days where high budget and high profile films have a degree of excellence to them, though we'll still have a number of bombs.. Emmerich and Bay still have jobs after all.
The hardware itself isn't bad, it's just that driver support and installation under Linux is still pretty primative.
The breadth of copyright is up to Congress, not the Supreme Court, and the Constitution makes that pretty clear. In the Betamax decision, the court ruled that the VCR was legal, but also that that situation could reversed if Congress passed a law. If Congress wants to criminalize unapproved PVRs, that's under their scope. Is the Supreme Court supposed to say "well, I know the Constitution says they can pass any laws related to copyright, but.. that's just wrong!"
I never found the Shuttle boxes I used to be particularly quiet. In fact it was the dynamically ramped fan speed that made them seem so loud -- with a constant speed you tend to tune it out. However, if the fan was often changing speed like mine was, the variations in pitch and volume were quite noticable, and even the low-level sound wasn't whisper quiet like the box claimed. The cases based off the nforce chipset were particularly bad, but I noticed mine with the via chipset was still rather loud. Now, my Condor PC small form factor.. that one is very quiet. Never any dynamic variations in CPU, even if it's chugging away.
Honestly, I'm with the ACLU on this one.. not due to being anti-gun (I'm favorable on the 2nd amendment), but because the ACLU has a pretty limited amount of resources, so they have to pick what fights to take. Without their help, the second amendment is by far most protected of all of our constitutional rights (though it's also the one under the most visible assault). The NRA does a good job of protecting gun owners' rights. There are many other rights that are not nearly as well defended (or defended at all). So while I disagree with the ACLU stance on the second amendment, I wouldn't want them wasting their money on something the NRA can do better.