No, Firefly's problem was that Fox screwed Whedon et al so hard that it was totally incoherent as a series.
When I watched it on DVD, I 'got it.' Watching on TV (The Train Job first, then Bushwhacked, then Our Mrs. Reynolds, skipping around the timeline and then not even airing Heart of Gold, Trash, or one of my favorites, The Message), you can't understand and even had the surprise of the Hour 1 break in the [real] pilot episode ruined by not airing it until the series was cancelled.
During the same time period (Fall 96-Spring 00) I was in college, too...
Computer: P-133, 32 MB RAM. Win 95 til I upgraded to a grey market copy of 98SE. Networking was accomplished with a 9600 baud ROLM dataphone. Serial cable. Opened a direct connection into the IRIX machine we used TIN, Lynx and PINE from. About 50% of the campus was using a computer in their rooms, but very few had Dataphones. There was a waiting list. I applied in Sept. when I got there and had it in November.
Phones: All landline, running on the aforementioned ROLM digital system. 10 cents a minute long distance. Local was free. Dial 8 for your long distance code, please.
Home Entertainment: I knew nobody without a TV in their rooms. Nobody. Nor a stereo.
Other: Nearly everybody had a fridge in their room. Some had the MicroFridgeFreeze as I did my sophomore year, a combined microwave, fridge and freezer.
of course, the Jersey inspections aren't much better w/r/t jackhammering my front suspension on my car. I thought they put my entire wheel through my engine compartment on my old Volvo.
I'm only mildly worried about the OBD-II narcing me out, though. My Lancer's not due for its first inspection until next year, at which point I'll find out if Jersey hooks up the monitor to it too.
And yeah, I know the OBD-I isn't a smack-to-fix system. I was just being flippant.
The timing's pretty funny considering the discussion at the Super Bowl party last night with a friend re: his old Bronco II (86? 87?) with a sticky fuel cutoff under the passenger floor that reacted badly if you tapped your foot too hard in time to the music. Stomp a little harder or kick the firewall and knock it back into place to get the engine running again.
Yeah, I'm aware the pre-OBDII people would've been SOL on my AutoZone recommendation, but anybody still driving a car that doesn't have an OBDII hookup or equivalent should know enough about cars to be able to smack it in the side like the Fonz and make it run again.
Any wear on the starter is bad in my opinion, and grounding out check connectors, dismounting ECUs, watching lights flash tens and ones...
or you could just go to AutoZone and have them plug in an OBDII diagnostic reader for free and not have to play with your key or wear out your starter. Plus, it'll give you a text readout right there in plain english.
Sorry, my work phones from Cingular have all been Nokias (5100, 8200 and...I forget, one that had a nice number pad for once) and they suck ass. Not durable in the least. I drop mine every now and then. The 5100's battery would slide off the contacts and cause me to drop calls, the 8200 had horrible reception...I have a ton of complaints in regards to Cingular's Nokia series of phones.
Sprint's Sanyo 8100 and 8200 have been great to me, though.
That's because you're missing the point that Nokia's trying to get across: The N-Gage isn't a cell phone that plays games, it's a game system that uses the cell network for multiplayer online gaming. It happens to be a cell phone as well.
Nokia addressed the poor design of the original N-Gage with the release of the N-Gage QD at E3 this year. No more sidetalking (or "ear taco" as their own marketing people called it), and you don't have to remove the battery to change games.
They've also created an XBox Live-alike called N-Gage Arena to facilitate online play.
As it stands, I don't see the N-Gage QD succeeding unless they price it as attractively as they're planning (US$99). It still suffers from the problem that it's a mediocre gaming system and a mediocre cell phone, and that is what is killing "convergence devices" as we see them today.
A lot of us on Corpnews know of puzzle pirates, but it's worth noting that this was the first in a series of articles GBob is writing. You can only cover so much at a time before tasting the bile in the back of our collective throats.
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No, Firefly's problem was that Fox screwed Whedon et al so hard that it was totally incoherent as a series.
When I watched it on DVD, I 'got it.' Watching on TV (The Train Job first, then Bushwhacked, then Our Mrs. Reynolds, skipping around the timeline and then not even airing Heart of Gold, Trash, or one of my favorites, The Message), you can't understand and even had the surprise of the Hour 1 break in the [real] pilot episode ruined by not airing it until the series was cancelled.
Stargate really had nothing to do with it.
Except for the contract they signed with Universal saying "three movies before doing another TV series."
That's what the holdup is, not a contract with Fox.
During the same time period (Fall 96-Spring 00) I was in college, too...
Computer: P-133, 32 MB RAM. Win 95 til I upgraded to a grey market copy of 98SE. Networking was accomplished with a 9600 baud ROLM dataphone. Serial cable. Opened a direct connection into the IRIX machine we used TIN, Lynx and PINE from. About 50% of the campus was using a computer in their rooms, but very few had Dataphones. There was a waiting list. I applied in Sept. when I got there and had it in November.
Phones: All landline, running on the aforementioned ROLM digital system. 10 cents a minute long distance. Local was free. Dial 8 for your long distance code, please.
Home Entertainment: I knew nobody without a TV in their rooms. Nobody. Nor a stereo.
Other: Nearly everybody had a fridge in their room. Some had the MicroFridgeFreeze as I did my sophomore year, a combined microwave, fridge and freezer.
My knees are gettin' creaky.
Igh. Move out of California.
of course, the Jersey inspections aren't much better w/r/t jackhammering my front suspension on my car. I thought they put my entire wheel through my engine compartment on my old Volvo.
I'm only mildly worried about the OBD-II narcing me out, though. My Lancer's not due for its first inspection until next year, at which point I'll find out if Jersey hooks up the monitor to it too.
And yeah, I know the OBD-I isn't a smack-to-fix system. I was just being flippant.
The timing's pretty funny considering the discussion at the Super Bowl party last night with a friend re: his old Bronco II (86? 87?) with a sticky fuel cutoff under the passenger floor that reacted badly if you tapped your foot too hard in time to the music. Stomp a little harder or kick the firewall and knock it back into place to get the engine running again.
Yeah, I'm aware the pre-OBDII people would've been SOL on my AutoZone recommendation, but anybody still driving a car that doesn't have an OBDII hookup or equivalent should know enough about cars to be able to smack it in the side like the Fonz and make it run again.
:)
Any wear on the starter is bad in my opinion, and grounding out check connectors, dismounting ECUs, watching lights flash tens and ones...
well, I'm glad I have the OBDII port.
That's because the age of consent in Florida is 16, you dolt.
http://www.ageofconsent.com/florida.htm
or you could just go to AutoZone and have them plug in an OBDII diagnostic reader for free and not have to play with your key or wear out your starter. Plus, it'll give you a text readout right there in plain english.
Much simpler.
They'll clear out the CEL, too.
This is the loudest quiet deal I've ever heard.
Even more interesting is that two years ago weightwatchers.com didn't block Phoenix at all when I was running it.
Sorry, my work phones from Cingular have all been Nokias (5100, 8200 and...I forget, one that had a nice number pad for once) and they suck ass. Not durable in the least. I drop mine every now and then. The 5100's battery would slide off the contacts and cause me to drop calls, the 8200 had horrible reception...I have a ton of complaints in regards to Cingular's Nokia series of phones.
Sprint's Sanyo 8100 and 8200 have been great to me, though.
No, I'd be scared shitless of getting shot by walking that far in LA.
and the TFA is a POS.
Imminent death of Internet predicted. Film at 11.
You sound like you've never dealt with supporting secretaries.
The hell that was raised by merely moving from Office 97 to 2000 would be inconsequential next to moving from 2000 to Writer.
You're probably thinking of Shadow of Yserbius (1993).
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http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/2000Q1/m
After watching the episode of Dead Like Me that she was in, I find it amusing that I've now watched her get railed up against a wall in TWO series.
There are sigs on /.?
Really?
Good thing I can filter them out in my user prefs panel!
Actually, in regards to your #2, you've got it slightly wrong.
The stats don't differentiate between players and accounts, so a single PLAYER with 3 ACCOUNTS will most likely show up as 3 not 1.
Multiple characters per account is standard on nearly every MMORPG.
That's because you're missing the point that Nokia's trying to get across: The N-Gage isn't a cell phone that plays games, it's a game system that uses the cell network for multiplayer online gaming. It happens to be a cell phone as well.
Nokia addressed the poor design of the original N-Gage with the release of the N-Gage QD at E3 this year. No more sidetalking (or "ear taco" as their own marketing people called it), and you don't have to remove the battery to change games.
They've also created an XBox Live-alike called N-Gage Arena to facilitate online play.
As it stands, I don't see the N-Gage QD succeeding unless they price it as attractively as they're planning (US$99). It still suffers from the problem that it's a mediocre gaming system and a mediocre cell phone, and that is what is killing "convergence devices" as we see them today.
You can't fit into Japanese midsize cars but you fit in a German compact?
my friend Frank's got this 2000 inch TV. I can't watch anything with DeNiro in it, though; his mole's 10 feet wide.
Yet somehow I don't see an option to mod your post "-1, Pedantic."
is eight months really so short a time to measure impact?
In MMOG terms, yes.
Catassing? Not weird.
http://wiki.onlinegamers.org/index.php?catass
A lot of us on Corpnews know of puzzle pirates, but it's worth noting that this was the first in a series of articles GBob is writing. You can only cover so much at a time before tasting the bile in the back of our collective throats.