Look for any LJ community with the name "naked" or a variation thereof in the name.
Unless it's specifically geared towards showing pictures of guys, the photos will be there.
Warning though, the photos, by and large, won't be up for long. The companies hosting the pics generally yank them as being a violation of the terms of service.
And the groups burn out fast, so there's a lot of churn and you have to keep hunting to find them.
Easier just to go to sourceforge and search for any projects with "porn" in the name. There are a lot of easy to use mass download utilities out there.
I think you're taking some off hand, jocular comments a bit too seriously. It's easy, and fun, to rag on Dominoes Pizza, just like it's easy, and fun, to rag on any large corporation.
Taste is subjective, as any TRUE foodie will be able to tell you. All of the comments have been in fun. Ultimately, it's not that different than the fans of two different sports teams ragging on each other.
Now, we could go into long discussions of WHY some / many people think Dominoes Pizza isn't very good, but to tell the truth, that requires more energy and though than most people in this forum are willing to put into the topic.
The only person taking this seriously or foaming at the mouth is you. Everyone else has their tongue too firmly planted in their cheek to be foaming.
... voltage capacity of Tungsten T and T2 models is not high enough to support a wifi card
In which case Palm is either incompetent or deliberately crippled the hardware.
After all, the Pocket PC devices released at the same time had the necessary voltage to run an SDIO card. Palm either played the "No one would ever want this" card or the "If they want this they'll have to buy the next model up."
I think it's a mistake to automatically associate pro-life with being not liberal.
In which case, please rephrase the line "Keep in mind, Ann Arbor is one of the more liberal spots in the Midwest"
to:
"Keep in mind, Ann Arbor's population is largely pro-choice."
I do remember several articles in the Ann Arbor news about this issue, and while I can't quote anything verbatim, I do know Dominoes lost a lot of business in the area and a few of their shops even closed down as a result. Surveys were conducted, and in the final summary, Ann Arbor had far more pro-choice residents than pro-life.
As a side note, I made the Pro-Choice == Liberal assumption because it's consistent with the majority of my experiences and the people I've known. Most of the Pro-Choice people I know have been moderate to liberal while most the pro-life people I've known have been Conservative. Mind you, I didn't say ALL. I fully acknowledge that my experiences, and media portrayals are not necessarily reflective of reality, and even if the assumption holds true for most cases, there will be exceptions, even sizable ones.
Eh, I'm just being a foodie for a moment. Learning how to make my own Pizza and sauce was a watershed moment for me, even using bagged Pizza Dough form the supermarket.
I'm spoiled. I'm close enough to Boston's "Little Italy" that you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a good Pizza joint.
I also used to live in Ann Arbor, about half an hour form the Dominoes corporate headquarters. There was something of a scandal when the town found out how much money was being given to "Pro Life" organizations by Dominoes Pizza Corporate. Keep in mind, Ann Arbor is one of the more liberal spots in the Midwest, so finding out that the owner of your Pizza Joint was giving seven figures a year to the people who were picketing outside the Planned Parenthood clinics was something of a shock. Ever since then, I've had a bit of a bias against them that has nothing to do with their Pizza.
I still remember my ex bumping her Packard Hell and seeing the screen go nuts, as the video RAM had fallen out again. There were no clips or friction to hold it in place. She had to turn the damn thing upside down to get the RAM chip out. We finally just used a strip of electrical tape to hold it in.
You never tasted REAL Pizza, Pizza made from fresh dough instead of frozen platters of four and water. Pizza made from decent sauce instead of the slightly flavored tomato paste Dominoes uses.
You've never had REAL Pizza.
Are there any small pizzerias left in your neighborhood? Remember, if you buy for the fastest delivery time or closest location, you are NOT getting the best pizza.
Yes, the Treo 600 supposedly didn't have the wiring to drive a wifi card, but "legal issues" are what's cited as the main concern. These links are the first couple of hits on a quick google search, but I spent a couple of days researching this in early 2004. Back then, SanDisk had more info on their site about the legal battles with PalmOne that were preventing the driver releases. SyChip, who wrote the drivers, wanted to release them, as did Sandisk, but Palm was claiming that due to the Palm / PalmOne split, there was confusion about who owned the rights to the code, and who could authorize the drivers.
It was pretty clear that Palm didn't want wifi support out there, unless they were the ones charging a premium for it.
My point is, posters are blaming the wrong people. Palm is being treated like a victim in many of these posts, when the Cell Phone companies probably never even had the chance to veto wifi support in the first place.
I am not blindly complaining about my own purchasing mistakes, but trying to help others avoid the same error. If this was all about me and my mistake, I'd moan about it and leave it at that. I want other people to know Palm is deliberately crippling their hardware.
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but this has nothing to do with the Cell Phone companies.
Look at the list of Palm devices that were available for sale in the last year and a half that have SDIO ports, but not integrated Wifi. There's a lot of them, aren't there? Did you know that Sandisk has drivers that would let any Palm device with an SDIO port running Palm OS 5.x use the Sandisk wifi card?
Did you know that Palm has been blocking Sandisk from releasing these drivers with what the Sandisk web site used to describe as "Licensing issues"?
The cell phone companies certainly gouge us at every turn, but this has nothing to do with them. This is Palm's doing, not theirs.
Palm has been restricting Wi-Fi capabilities in their devices for quite some time for devices with and without an integrated phone. It's not new, just research the Sandisk SDIO Wifi card and it's battles to get Palm to let them release the drivers.
Palm has been using licensing constraints to restrict the Sandisk card's supported platforms. I COULD have wifi support for my T2 this afternoon, if the PHBs at Palm would let the drivers be released.
Just ask anyone who (like me) was stupid enough to buy a Tungsten 2. How is it different from the higher end models that do support Wi-Fi? Simple, no drivers. It has the OS, Battery and most the internal parts of the devices that do support the card, but Palm has refused to release drivers, because it could eat into sales of the higher end devices.
It's kind of sad that so many people on slashdot are blaming the cell phone companies, because they have nothing to do with it. This is something Palm has been doing with their entire product line. The SanDisk SDIO Wi-Fi card was originally intended to support Palm devices as well, but licensing issues, not technology issues, have kept the drivers from being released.
Yes, Palm has been using licensing excuses to keep Sandisk from releasing their Palm drivers for their SDIO Wi-Fi card.
If it was just the cell phone companies then devices like the Tungsten 2 would support the WiFi card, and not just a handful of devices.
This isn't about the Cell Phone companies, this is about Palm trying to force users to buy more expensive hardware to get the "built-in" wi-fi support. the only reason there is a Palm Wi-Fi card that has even minimal device support is because they're giving a slight nod to customer demand.
They have purposely refused to release drivers to let the Wi-Fi card work on lower end devices like the T2. This is their choice, and how they want to go about gouging their customers.
The T2 is the LAST Palm device I will ever own, not because I expect it to last, but because I expect to replace it as soon as I have the finances to do so.
Nice as the idea is, I'm afraid I'm already soured on the Palm Platform, largely because of my experiences with their support. They shipped an unreliable, buggy piece of garbage with the T2 (Documents to Go) and can't seem to offer support beyond "reinstall" when users have problems. It's pretty clear their "support" is in the form of untrained staff looking for keywords and sending canned replies. I was continually reminded of the Elizabot when I was dealing with them, and have no intention to repeat the experience. There was no way to elevate the issue to someone with a clue about the hardware.
Mind you, I understand the occasional device going out with a hardware problem, and I understand the first tier tech staff being a step above the Elizabot. What I do not understand and will not excuse, is the lack of options for escalating the issue and the fact that they just stopped responding to my issue. They sent their canned replies, and when I replied with very polite and concise messages of what errors I was still getting, I just got silence. Palm clearly doesn't care about support their hardware, and CompUSA washed their hands when the 30 day return window came to a close.
According to Palm's Tech Support, there's nothing wrong with it. They said I just need to reinstall Documents to Go.
Never mind the fact that in my original support request, I spelled out in writing that the problems persisted even after a hardware reset.
In the end I uninstalled Documents to Go. Lovely that an application that came with the device turns out to be a bug ridden slice of pain. In all fairness doing so did eliminate an entire category of errors, so now I can sync the piece of junk with just three resets instead of four.
What am I running? Well, the problem predated when I started using zLauncher, and uninstalling it, doesn't change how the Palm syncs. Aside from that, I have Plucker, RealPlayer and the Audible player installed.
I've tried every combination removing these applications to no avail. The bottom line is I still have to do at least two soft resets with almost every sync, even when that sync was the first one done after a hard reset, and syncing against a computer that had a fresh install of the Palm Software and no legacy Palm data or third party applications.
And Palm insists the device is just fine.
Too bad this all started after the 30 day return window, or I could have returned the thing and gotten something else.
Sorry, but after the pain of dealing with Palm tech support, I am never buying another Palm product again.
I want a Palm Pilot that does everything my current Palm Pilot does, but without the random crashed and frequent resets when I try to sync, at least with the default applications.
Oh, and I want a SDIO Wireless Card for it.
Oh, wait, this is a REAL WORLD list of ideas, not science fiction. My bad./me unbends another paperclip, having worn the threads off the stylus that unscrews to reveal a reset pin
I know what you mean about their support. All I've been able to get out of Palm was directions on how to do a hard reset and restore my vital information without Documents to Go.
I followed the directions, and still had to do two soft resets before it would even start to hotsync.
As long as you avoid the urge to put as much junk sharewarez on your PDA
Aside from what came with the Palm I'm running the following:
* Most recent patch of Documents to Go that came with the Palm.
* Plucker.
* zLauncher.
The problems predate the install of Plucker and zLauncher, continue if I uninstall all three programs, and continue even after a hard reset and complete memory wipe. I have to do soft resets on every hotsync, even the first one after a hard reset and on a fresh install of Palm Desktop with a new OS install.
The presence or absence of a memory card has no impact on the random freezes.
My wife thinks it's a hardware problem and I should send it back for repair, but the Palm support staff reached no such conclusion. As a matter of fact, they didn't make many conclusions at all, just sent directions on how to do a hard reset, even though my initial complaints all stated that a hard reset and wiping the Palm's memory did not eliminate the problem.
I was a fan of Palm, but the pain, data loss and incompetent support I've gotten have soured me on the company. I won't buy more hardware from them. My great regret is that I don't have the finances at the moment to replace the thing.
The tourists will have to reset every few hours just. If they use a Palm, then they should just rewire the power button to the reset. If tourists have to fumble with paper clips to reset the damn unstable hunks of junk, then the PDAs will just end up cluttering the sidewalks as they're thrown at high speed by frustrated tourists, probably through the windows of the tourism board.
Replying to my own post is bad form, I know, but this version continues executing after fatal errors, and as a result can skim past the autoflush error that killed the last one after 160 iterations or so.
Be aware, it may have to go through several errors before resuming operation.
my @domainlist = ('website1','website2','website3'); use IO::Socket::INET; my $x=0; while (1) { foreach $domain (@domainlist){
eval{check_site($domain);}; warn $@ if $@;#End eval statement }#End foreach to loop through domains
print "$x\n"; $x++; }#End master while to run until program crash
sub check_site{
my $site = shift;
$sock = new IO::Socket::INET (
Proto => 'tcp',
PeerAddr => $site,
PeerPort => '80',
Reuse => 1
);
$sock->autoflush(1);
push @sockArray, $sock;
#print "$site\n"; }#End Sheck Site Sub
It generates a few error if run as-is, so I made some changes.
When I tested it against my personal domain, it ran for a few minutes before quitting with the error:
Can't call method "autoflush" on an undefined value at C:\temp\go.pl line 20.
An error handling module to restart the program could make it fairly bulletproof.. Personally, I'd find it amusing to add a couple of lines to wget the site and rm any local downloaded files on each loop, but that's just me.
The second version (below) gives you a count of how many times it's run, and adds an array to hit multiple domains, instead of adding blocks of code.
You can make it run a little faster by commenting out the print statements and anything to do with the $x variable. ($x is only used for telling you what's going on, not for any real program logic)
my @domainlist = ('website1','website2'); use IO::Socket::INET; my $x=0; while (1) { foreach $domain (@domainlist){
$sock = new IO::Socket::INET (
Proto => 'tcp',
PeerAddr => $domain,
PeerPort => '80',
Reuse => 1
);
$sock->autoflush(1);
push @sockArray, $sock;
print "$domain\n"; }#End foreach to loop through domains
print "$x\n"; $x++; }#End master while to run until program crash
The movie was pretty lame, and I was surprised when they picked it to be the basis of a series.
I was even more surprised when the series turned out to be good.
A warning though, there's a lot of changes that take place during the run, and if you don't start at the beginning, then there's a lot to catch up on, and it's easy to get lost. You almost need a hard core fan sitting next to you giving pop-up bios and updates.
That said, rent the first season or so. I haven't watched it in a couple years, due largely to factors outside the show itself, and when I had the chance to watch it again, I declined because I kept getting lost. "Wait, this character was DEAD for a season? Why's he back???"
Slashdot Mirror
Look for any LJ community with the name "naked" or a variation thereof in the name.
Unless it's specifically geared towards showing pictures of guys, the photos will be there.
Warning though, the photos, by and large, won't be up for long. The companies hosting the pics generally yank them as being a violation of the terms of service.
And the groups burn out fast, so there's a lot of churn and you have to keep hunting to find them.
Easier just to go to sourceforge and search for any projects with "porn" in the name. There are a lot of easy to use mass download utilities out there.
Relax.
I think you're taking some off hand, jocular comments a bit too seriously. It's easy, and fun, to rag on Dominoes Pizza, just like it's easy, and fun, to rag on any large corporation.
Taste is subjective, as any TRUE foodie will be able to tell you. All of the comments have been in fun. Ultimately, it's not that different than the fans of two different sports teams ragging on each other.
Now, we could go into long discussions of WHY some / many people think Dominoes Pizza isn't very good, but to tell the truth, that requires more energy and though than most people in this forum are willing to put into the topic.
The only person taking this seriously or foaming at the mouth is you. Everyone else has their tongue too firmly planted in their cheek to be foaming.
... voltage capacity of Tungsten T and T2 models is not high enough to support a wifi card
In which case Palm is either incompetent or deliberately crippled the hardware.
After all, the Pocket PC devices released at the same time had the necessary voltage to run an SDIO card. Palm either played the "No one would ever want this" card or the "If they want this they'll have to buy the next model up."
Either way, it doesn't reflect well on them
I think it's a mistake to automatically associate pro-life with being not liberal.
In which case, please rephrase the line "Keep in mind, Ann Arbor is one of the more liberal spots in the Midwest"
to:
"Keep in mind, Ann Arbor's population is largely pro-choice."
I do remember several articles in the Ann Arbor news about this issue, and while I can't quote anything verbatim, I do know Dominoes lost a lot of business in the area and a few of their shops even closed down as a result. Surveys were conducted, and in the final summary, Ann Arbor had far more pro-choice residents than pro-life.
As a side note, I made the Pro-Choice == Liberal assumption because it's consistent with the majority of my experiences and the people I've known. Most of the Pro-Choice people I know have been moderate to liberal while most the pro-life people I've known have been Conservative. Mind you, I didn't say ALL. I fully acknowledge that my experiences, and media portrayals are not necessarily reflective of reality, and even if the assumption holds true for most cases, there will be exceptions, even sizable ones.
Eh, I'm just being a foodie for a moment. Learning how to make my own Pizza and sauce was a watershed moment for me, even using bagged Pizza Dough form the supermarket.
I'm spoiled. I'm close enough to Boston's "Little Italy" that you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a good Pizza joint.
I also used to live in Ann Arbor, about half an hour form the Dominoes corporate headquarters. There was something of a scandal when the town found out how much money was being given to "Pro Life" organizations by Dominoes Pizza Corporate. Keep in mind, Ann Arbor is one of the more liberal spots in the Midwest, so finding out that the owner of your Pizza Joint was giving seven figures a year to the people who were picketing outside the Planned Parenthood clinics was something of a shock. Ever since then, I've had a bit of a bias against them that has nothing to do with their Pizza.
*hug*
You poor person.
My heart goes out to you.
I still remember my ex bumping her Packard Hell and seeing the screen go nuts, as the video RAM had fallen out again. There were no clips or friction to hold it in place. She had to turn the damn thing upside down to get the RAM chip out. We finally just used a strip of electrical tape to hold it in.
You poor soul.
You never tasted REAL Pizza, Pizza made from fresh dough instead of frozen platters of four and water. Pizza made from decent sauce instead of the slightly flavored tomato paste Dominoes uses.
You've never had REAL Pizza.
Are there any small pizzerias left in your neighborhood? Remember, if you buy for the fastest delivery time or closest location, you are NOT getting the best pizza.
who's to say it's not Sprint?
palminfocenter.com for one
geek.com for another.
Yes, the Treo 600 supposedly didn't have the wiring to drive a wifi card, but "legal issues" are what's cited as the main concern. These links are the first couple of hits on a quick google search, but I spent a couple of days researching this in early 2004. Back then, SanDisk had more info on their site about the legal battles with PalmOne that were preventing the driver releases. SyChip, who wrote the drivers, wanted to release them, as did Sandisk, but Palm was claiming that due to the Palm / PalmOne split, there was confusion about who owned the rights to the code, and who could authorize the drivers.
It was pretty clear that Palm didn't want wifi support out there, unless they were the ones charging a premium for it.
My point is, posters are blaming the wrong people. Palm is being treated like a victim in many of these posts, when the Cell Phone companies probably never even had the chance to veto wifi support in the first place.
I am not blindly complaining about my own purchasing mistakes, but trying to help others avoid the same error. If this was all about me and my mistake, I'd moan about it and leave it at that. I want other people to know Palm is deliberately crippling their hardware.
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but this has nothing to do with the Cell Phone companies.
Look at the list of Palm devices that were available for sale in the last year and a half that have SDIO ports, but not integrated Wifi. There's a lot of them, aren't there? Did you know that Sandisk has drivers that would let any Palm device with an SDIO port running Palm OS 5.x use the Sandisk wifi card?
Did you know that Palm has been blocking Sandisk from releasing these drivers with what the Sandisk web site used to describe as "Licensing issues"?
The cell phone companies certainly gouge us at every turn, but this has nothing to do with them. This is Palm's doing, not theirs.
They goofed enough with the T5
And the T2, which I own.
Palm has been restricting Wi-Fi capabilities in their devices for quite some time for devices with and without an integrated phone. It's not new, just research the Sandisk SDIO Wifi card and it's battles to get Palm to let them release the drivers.
Palm has been using licensing constraints to restrict the Sandisk card's supported platforms. I COULD have wifi support for my T2 this afternoon, if the PHBs at Palm would let the drivers be released.
Just ask anyone who (like me) was stupid enough to buy a Tungsten 2. How is it different from the higher end models that do support Wi-Fi? Simple, no drivers. It has the OS, Battery and most the internal parts of the devices that do support the card, but Palm has refused to release drivers, because it could eat into sales of the higher end devices.
It's kind of sad that so many people on slashdot are blaming the cell phone companies, because they have nothing to do with it. This is something Palm has been doing with their entire product line. The SanDisk SDIO Wi-Fi card was originally intended to support Palm devices as well, but licensing issues, not technology issues, have kept the drivers from being released.
Yes, Palm has been using licensing excuses to keep Sandisk from releasing their Palm drivers for their SDIO Wi-Fi card.
If it was just the cell phone companies then devices like the Tungsten 2 would support the WiFi card, and not just a handful of devices.
This isn't about the Cell Phone companies, this is about Palm trying to force users to buy more expensive hardware to get the "built-in" wi-fi support. the only reason there is a Palm Wi-Fi card that has even minimal device support is because they're giving a slight nod to customer demand.
They have purposely refused to release drivers to let the Wi-Fi card work on lower end devices like the T2. This is their choice, and how they want to go about gouging their customers.
The T2 is the LAST Palm device I will ever own, not because I expect it to last, but because I expect to replace it as soon as I have the finances to do so.
Nice as the idea is, I'm afraid I'm already soured on the Palm Platform, largely because of my experiences with their support. They shipped an unreliable, buggy piece of garbage with the T2 (Documents to Go) and can't seem to offer support beyond "reinstall" when users have problems. It's pretty clear their "support" is in the form of untrained staff looking for keywords and sending canned replies. I was continually reminded of the Elizabot when I was dealing with them, and have no intention to repeat the experience. There was no way to elevate the issue to someone with a clue about the hardware.
Mind you, I understand the occasional device going out with a hardware problem, and I understand the first tier tech staff being a step above the Elizabot. What I do not understand and will not excuse, is the lack of options for escalating the issue and the fact that they just stopped responding to my issue. They sent their canned replies, and when I replied with very polite and concise messages of what errors I was still getting, I just got silence. Palm clearly doesn't care about support their hardware, and CompUSA washed their hands when the 30 day return window came to a close.
According to Palm's Tech Support, there's nothing wrong with it. They said I just need to reinstall Documents to Go.
Never mind the fact that in my original support request, I spelled out in writing that the problems persisted even after a hardware reset.
In the end I uninstalled Documents to Go. Lovely that an application that came with the device turns out to be a bug ridden slice of pain. In all fairness doing so did eliminate an entire category of errors, so now I can sync the piece of junk with just three resets instead of four.
What am I running? Well, the problem predated when I started using zLauncher, and uninstalling it, doesn't change how the Palm syncs. Aside from that, I have Plucker, RealPlayer and the Audible player installed.
I've tried every combination removing these applications to no avail. The bottom line is I still have to do at least two soft resets with almost every sync, even when that sync was the first one done after a hard reset, and syncing against a computer that had a fresh install of the Palm Software and no legacy Palm data or third party applications.
And Palm insists the device is just fine.
Too bad this all started after the 30 day return window, or I could have returned the thing and gotten something else.
Sorry, but after the pain of dealing with Palm tech support, I am never buying another Palm product again.
I want a Palm Pilot that does everything my current Palm Pilot does, but without the random crashed and frequent resets when I try to sync, at least with the default applications.
/me unbends another paperclip, having worn the threads off the stylus that unscrews to reveal a reset pin
Oh, and I want a SDIO Wireless Card for it.
Oh, wait, this is a REAL WORLD list of ideas, not science fiction. My bad.
What model is this?
I am (Sadly) the owner of a Tungsten 2
I know what you mean about their support. All I've been able to get out of Palm was directions on how to do a hard reset and restore my vital information without Documents to Go.
I followed the directions, and still had to do two soft resets before it would even start to hotsync.
As long as you avoid the urge to put as much junk sharewarez on your PDA
Aside from what came with the Palm I'm running the following:
* Most recent patch of Documents to Go that came with the Palm.
* Plucker.
* zLauncher.
The problems predate the install of Plucker and zLauncher, continue if I uninstall all three programs, and continue even after a hard reset and complete memory wipe. I have to do soft resets on every hotsync, even the first one after a hard reset and on a fresh install of Palm Desktop with a new OS install.
The presence or absence of a memory card has no impact on the random freezes.
My wife thinks it's a hardware problem and I should send it back for repair, but the Palm support staff reached no such conclusion. As a matter of fact, they didn't make many conclusions at all, just sent directions on how to do a hard reset, even though my initial complaints all stated that a hard reset and wiping the Palm's memory did not eliminate the problem.
I was a fan of Palm, but the pain, data loss and incompetent support I've gotten have soured me on the company. I won't buy more hardware from them. My great regret is that I don't have the finances at the moment to replace the thing.
The tourists will have to reset every few hours just. If they use a Palm, then they should just rewire the power button to the reset. If tourists have to fumble with paper clips to reset the damn unstable hunks of junk, then the PDAs will just end up cluttering the sidewalks as they're thrown at high speed by frustrated tourists, probably through the windows of the tourism board.
And if it does everything you want it to, you shouldn't upgrade.
Your computer.
It does everything you need, at a speed you are happy with.
As long as your data is backed up and safe and security issues are taken care of, I see no reason to upgrade.
Be aware, it may have to go through several errors before resuming operation.
When I tested it against my personal domain, it ran for a few minutes before quitting with the error:
Can't call method "autoflush" on an undefined value at C:\temp\go.pl line 20.
An error handling module to restart the program could make it fairly bulletproof.. Personally, I'd find it amusing to add a couple of lines to wget the site and rm any local downloaded files on each loop, but that's just me.The second version (below) gives you a count of how many times it's run, and adds an array to hit multiple domains, instead of adding blocks of code.
You can make it run a little faster by commenting out the print statements and anything to do with the $x variable. ($x is only used for telling you what's going on, not for any real program logic)
Cool. So if we're about 1,000 Miles away from the impact zone we'll be OK.
a few countries will be heavily damaged or destroyed, but the world won't end.
I feel much better now.
The movie was pretty lame, and I was surprised when they picked it to be the basis of a series.
I was even more surprised when the series turned out to be good.
A warning though, there's a lot of changes that take place during the run, and if you don't start at the beginning, then there's a lot to catch up on, and it's easy to get lost. You almost need a hard core fan sitting next to you giving pop-up bios and updates.
That said, rent the first season or so. I haven't watched it in a couple years, due largely to factors outside the show itself, and when I had the chance to watch it again, I declined because I kept getting lost. "Wait, this character was DEAD for a season? Why's he back???"