Software isn't something you should really be able to own and charge for
Small point: software IS something you should be able to own and charge for, if you so wish to. If you want to go the free/open source route, you can, and it's possible to still make money. But just because someone writes a piece of software doesn't mean that it MUST be free.
Seriously, if we're out of Greek Gods and Shakespear characters, why not start using the names of people important to science/science fiction? If those Hale/Bopp weanies get a comet, surely Arthur deserves a moon!;)
Me: Wow, General Hawk! I used to think Cleopatra 2525 was just another annoyingly bad television show. But now I know that it is a threat to life as we know it, and must be stopped at all costs!
General Hawk: That's right, Jayhawk88! And knowing is half the battle!
*music*Geee Iiiii Jooooooooeee *du dum dum da dum!*
hehe, add to that the fact that she's apparently pregnant to increase the tension. Gee, Scully, you sure look nice today in that, uh, maternity dress and all.
Yeah, Army of Darkness rules. Too bad it made about $2000 at the box office and effectively ended his movie career.
Oh, well, I guess we're stuck with T1k for now. At least they didn't choose Lou Diamond Phillips. I still wake up in a cold sweat because of Young Guns 2.
But this is kinda my point. I mean, here's Bruce in another new series, and it's probably destined to be another short-run, under-appreciated show. I've not seen the show, don't know whether it's good or not. But it is second-rate syndication (teamed up with Cleopatra 2525? What the hell is that?), that only hard core Bruce cultists or insomniacs will see on a regular basis.
Good point about the Mulder opposites. Scully is obvious. Krycek was first introduced as a Mulder boot-licker, then ultra-evil. Spender is just a dick: I try not to think about him too much.
I think they might have missed their calling on this one in the form of Skinner. Skinner all but admitted he was a believer at the end of last season after what he saw. It would have been kinda cool to see the normally by-the-book, maybe-I'm-compromised-maybe-I'm-not Skinner take Mulder's spot. Lot's of great potential material in seeing just how far Skinner would go in investigations, would he have contacts Mulder didn't, would others higher up be worried by his "turning", etc. Hell, Skinner chilling with the Lone Gunman would be worth a season right there.
Pipe dream, I know. Skinner probably doesn't have a high enough Q rating or something with network execs. Still, it would have made for some interesting TV...
Seems like everytime they end a season, something bad happens to Krycek. He's been invaded by an alien host, left for dead in an abandoned missle silo, left for dead in a Russian experimentation prison, left for dead in a Turkish prison...Do I sense a pattern here?
I swear, the final episode they ought to let both Mulder and Scully beat Krycek to within an inch of his life, set him on fire, divide the ashes into 4 air-tight containers locked in metal chests, and dump them into the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic oceans. Then sit back and watch all the X-Philes ask, "I wonder when Krycek will show up on The Lone Gunman?"
Insolent Whelp! You obviously have not been forced to deal with their Mantis Technique;)
That moment is without a doubt the best moment in X-Files history. Langly: You know what I want to hear. Say it. Frohike: *Sigh* Your kung-fu is better than mine...
OK, so maybe Bruce Cambell isn't the best actor in Hollywood, but he's damn sure a good one. It just seems to me that old Bruce is one hard-luck guy when it comes to getting and keeping gigs.
From Brisco County Jr. to Xena, Bruce has either been under-appreciated or under-used. Personally, I think he would have been the perfect fit for the X-Files. After so many years of dark, brooding, rambling commentery from Duchoveny, it would have been a nice change of pace to see Bruce in that role. They could have even done the old role reversal: have Bruce come in as the sceptic, and force a now almost-ready-to-belive Scully to play the role of the crackpot. Instead, we are saddled with Robert Patrick, who undoubtedly will come in and try to be Mulder2, and fail miserably.
I used to think the X-Files was still as good as show as it ever was, but after getting the Season1 DVD's and watching them in between Diablo2 marathon's, I can definitely see a drop in quality. The show seems to be on cruise control. I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but it's probably a good thing that next season will be the last.
And, of course, if you convert Bill Gates to numbers using the standard alphabet you get:
BILL GATES 2+9+12+12+7+1+20+5+19=87.
87, of course, is the average number of "secret" messages one can find in any paragraph of text, given enough time, desire, and computing power. This paragraph happens to contain 54 secret messages. Can you find them all?
Oh, and just to try and keep this somewhat on topic: I also used to be a hard-core Netscape user, but I ended up switching to IE somewhere around 4.3. Since then I've used IE as my standard. Lately, however, I'm been checking out the Opera browser. They have versions for Windows, Linux, BeOS and Mac. It's not perfect, but so far it seems more stable and slightly faster than IE.
500 Million people saw this launch? 1/12 of the worlds population watched this rocket take off? Am I missing something here: is this Pizza Hut rocket really big in Europe?
Call me a skeptic, I guess, but 500 million sounds more like some marketing dweebs wet dream.
When it comes to delivery (which, when coupled with sitting in front of your machine playing today's game of the week, is the only REAL way to eat pizza), Papa John's kicks all ass it sees.
However, if we're talking all-time greatest pizza, there is only one true winner: Old-School Little Ceasers. Circa late 80's, Little Ceaser's was the best pizza money could buy. Back when "Pizza-Pizza!" still meant something, you could get 2 square pizza's (on one cardboard holder so big it took 2 people to carry it) with 2-3 toppings for around $12.
Honorable mention goes to Pyramid Pizza. Anyone who's spent time in Lawrence or Manhattan, KS, will back me up on this one:)
And Deja has taken the time, *and*money* to make your post accessible to more people
If I posted to Usenet from a regular old news browser, did I ask Deja to make my post available to more people? No, I don't have anything to do with Deja. Yet they can use my post as a form of advertisement to their users. And it IS a form of advertisement, no matter how Deja tries to spin it.
Perhaps Deja should think about limiting this form of linking to those posts posted through their service.
Why would they merge them? Chances are the average surfer isn't going to notice that both web sites have that little "ZDC-Net" (or, maybe C-NetDavis?) icon in the top right corner.
"Say, I just read a great review of Diakatana2 over at Gamecenter.com, but I'm suspicious!" "Well, Gamespot.com also gave it a 90% rating!" "Wow! I'm sold!"
Man, I can remember when it looked like Ziff-Davis was going to take over the entire world. Now, bought out by CNet. Oh, how the mighty have fallen...
Too bad, though, that CN chose to take off the Saturday night "Toonami" block they used to have on. Talk about sweet: come home from the bar, just in time to see Thundercats, Robotech, and Voltron. Now we get episodes of Scooby-Doo and The Flintstones that I've seen 50+ times. Blah.
On a side note: when the hell is CN going to get us Transformers? Is this show locked in syndication hell or something? As popular as this show was, I can't belive CN hasn't picked it up, considering some of the other garbage they throw up on occasion (Pirates of Dark Water? Gary Colman Show?). A side order of GI Joe would be nice as well...
Wolverine actually makes the best point in the movie regarding this:
"If you really belived in what you were doing, it would be you in that machine".
Not word for word. If Magneto HAD been willing to sacrifice himself to run the machine, you could make the argument that he's a tragic hero of some kind. The fact that he chooses to sacrifice Rouge, however, makes him a villian.
The problem with most alternative fuel sources is that they don't offer the performance of petroleum-based gas in a combustion engine does. I don't know about natural gas or fuel cells, but it's always been a big strike against electric cars.
Even if the average American driver doesn't do it on a regular basis, they still would like the ability to "drop the hammer" and do 0-60 in under X amount of seconds, and do 100+mph on the open highway. Just take a look at any car commercial on TV. They all talk about performance, handling tight curves, etc. Hell, they make mini-vans and SUV's seem like sports cars.
Until an alternative fuel comes along that cane match or exceed the performance a gas-combustible can give, we will all remain Exxon's bitch. Call it the "Dukes of Hazard" syndrome I guess...
I have used their distros (2.3, 2.4), and I must say I like them a lot. They're definitely aimed at the novice Linux user (like me): Corel is definitely not Slackware. Still, they include most-if-not-all the apps you'd expect, and have some great Novell IPX support. If Novell would hurry up and release Client for Linux, and either WordPerfect or StarOffice was just a little better with MSOffice conversions, I'd be looking at Corel for desktop replacements within the company. Rejoice, brothers and sisters: the end of Windows is nigh!;)
Jesse Berst (and ZDNet on a whole) seems to have one thing in mind when writing an article: How can I get more people to visit this article on my web site? The answer: write the most inflamatory thing possible without going totally over the top. After all, what better way to drive up those hit totals than to get yourself slash-dotted?
The problem is that our society tries to pretend it doesn't happen....But to pretend we live in a nice, sanitary world, where cows just sort of magically turn into hamburger is to be in serious denial.
I think that most people fully realize that eating meat involves the killing of some kind of animal. What kind of remedy would you propose to our "nice, sanitary world"? Remind people of where their hamburger is coming at every opportunity? Pictures of cows being butchered on menus? What point would this serve?
People had a much better understanding of things when eating meat meant personally killing animals. When eating a chicken meant going and getting a live one, and wringing its neck on your own. But now we're so removed from that, we want to pretend that the meat just magically appears, in a factory some where.
A better understanding of what? Where the phrase, "Running around like a chicken with it's head cut off" came from? So what if someone has never wrung a chicken's neck before. It doesn't mean they think chickens come from "Happy Magic Food Land".
I've personally killed chickens/pheasants/quail, and plucked and cleaned them. I've caught fish, cut the skin off them while they were still half-alive, and carved the meat away from their bones. I've seen cows/pigs/deer butchered first hand. Does this mean that I have more of a right to eat meat then someone who hasn't done these things? What kind of logic is that?
They DON'T let copyright infringers use their service. As soon as a user is identified as a violator (a la Metallica and Dr. Dre) they pull you off.
Damn, that's funny. Do you also believe that the government is working for your best interests, and Microsoft is engaging in fair business practices?
All right, Flame Off. Let's consider a few things:
- Would Napster have removed accounts of any users if Metallica and Dre had not threatened them with a lawsuit? - What about all the other songs transferred daily on Napster. Does Napster really believe that only Metallica and Dre songs are traded illegally? What steps is Napster taking to ensure that Kid Rock and Korn songs aren't illegally traded?
Napster is a joke. The idea that there is any legal use for this program is laughable. There are any number of software apps that will allow you to convert CD tracks to MP3's for your personal use. Artists who want to distribute their music for free can post their MP3's on a web site. The only thing Napster is used for by 99% of the people who use it is to get copyrighted material for free.
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Software isn't something you should really be able to own and charge for
Small point: software IS something you should be able to own and charge for, if you so wish to. If you want to go the free/open source route, you can, and it's possible to still make money. But just because someone writes a piece of software doesn't mean that it MUST be free.
Name it Dave Bowman! Or perhaps Arthur C Clarke!
;)
Seriously, if we're out of Greek Gods and Shakespear characters, why not start using the names of people important to science/science fiction? If those Hale/Bopp weanies get a comet, surely Arthur deserves a moon!
Me: Wow, General Hawk! I used to think Cleopatra 2525 was just another annoyingly bad television show. But now I know that it is a threat to life as we know it, and must be stopped at all costs!
General Hawk: That's right, Jayhawk88! And knowing is half the battle!
*music*Geee Iiiii Jooooooooeee *du dum dum da dum!*
AND he has got the HUGEST crush on Scully
hehe, add to that the fact that she's apparently pregnant to increase the tension. Gee, Scully, you sure look nice today in that, uh, maternity dress and all.
Yeah, Army of Darkness rules. Too bad it made about $2000 at the box office and effectively ended his movie career.
Oh, well, I guess we're stuck with T1k for now. At least they didn't choose Lou Diamond Phillips. I still wake up in a cold sweat because of Young Guns 2.
*shudder*
But this is kinda my point. I mean, here's Bruce in another new series, and it's probably destined to be another short-run, under-appreciated show. I've not seen the show, don't know whether it's good or not. But it is second-rate syndication (teamed up with Cleopatra 2525? What the hell is that?), that only hard core Bruce cultists or insomniacs will see on a regular basis.
Good point about the Mulder opposites. Scully is obvious. Krycek was first introduced as a Mulder boot-licker, then ultra-evil. Spender is just a dick: I try not to think about him too much.
I think they might have missed their calling on this one in the form of Skinner. Skinner all but admitted he was a believer at the end of last season after what he saw. It would have been kinda cool to see the normally by-the-book, maybe-I'm-compromised-maybe-I'm-not Skinner take Mulder's spot. Lot's of great potential material in seeing just how far Skinner would go in investigations, would he have contacts Mulder didn't, would others higher up be worried by his "turning", etc. Hell, Skinner chilling with the Lone Gunman would be worth a season right there.
Pipe dream, I know. Skinner probably doesn't have a high enough Q rating or something with network execs. Still, it would have made for some interesting TV...
Ahh, the many lives of Alex Krycek...
Seems like everytime they end a season, something bad happens to Krycek. He's been invaded by an alien host, left for dead in an abandoned missle silo, left for dead in a Russian experimentation prison, left for dead in a Turkish prison...Do I sense a pattern here?
I swear, the final episode they ought to let both Mulder and Scully beat Krycek to within an inch of his life, set him on fire, divide the ashes into 4 air-tight containers locked in metal chests, and dump them into the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic oceans. Then sit back and watch all the X-Philes ask, "I wonder when Krycek will show up on The Lone Gunman?"
Even if our kung-fu is better than theirs...
;)
Insolent Whelp! You obviously have not been forced to deal with their Mantis Technique
That moment is without a doubt the best moment in X-Files history.
Langly: You know what I want to hear. Say it.
Frohike: *Sigh* Your kung-fu is better than mine...
OK, so maybe Bruce Cambell isn't the best actor in Hollywood, but he's damn sure a good one. It just seems to me that old Bruce is one hard-luck guy when it comes to getting and keeping gigs.
From Brisco County Jr. to Xena, Bruce has either been under-appreciated or under-used. Personally, I think he would have been the perfect fit for the X-Files. After so many years of dark, brooding, rambling commentery from Duchoveny, it would have been a nice change of pace to see Bruce in that role. They could have even done the old role reversal: have Bruce come in as the sceptic, and force a now almost-ready-to-belive Scully to play the role of the crackpot. Instead, we are saddled with Robert Patrick, who undoubtedly will come in and try to be Mulder2, and fail miserably.
I used to think the X-Files was still as good as show as it ever was, but after getting the Season1 DVD's and watching them in between Diablo2 marathon's, I can definitely see a drop in quality. The show seems to be on cruise control. I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but it's probably a good thing that next season will be the last.
And, of course, if you convert Bill Gates to numbers using the standard alphabet you get:
BILL GATES
2+9+12+12+7+1+20+5+19=87.
87, of course, is the average number of "secret" messages one can find in any paragraph of text, given enough time, desire, and computing power. This paragraph happens to contain 54 secret messages. Can you find them all?
Oh, and just to try and keep this somewhat on topic: I also used to be a hard-core Netscape user, but I ended up switching to IE somewhere around 4.3. Since then I've used IE as my standard. Lately, however, I'm been checking out the Opera browser. They have versions for Windows, Linux, BeOS and Mac. It's not perfect, but so far it seems more stable and slightly faster than IE.
500 Million people saw this launch? 1/12 of the worlds population watched this rocket take off? Am I missing something here: is this Pizza Hut rocket really big in Europe?
Call me a skeptic, I guess, but 500 million sounds more like some marketing dweebs wet dream.
When it comes to delivery (which, when coupled with sitting in front of your machine playing today's game of the week, is the only REAL way to eat pizza), Papa John's kicks all ass it sees.
:)
However, if we're talking all-time greatest pizza, there is only one true winner: Old-School Little Ceasers. Circa late 80's, Little Ceaser's was the best pizza money could buy. Back when "Pizza-Pizza!" still meant something, you could get 2 square pizza's (on one cardboard holder so big it took 2 people to carry it) with 2-3 toppings for around $12.
Honorable mention goes to Pyramid Pizza. Anyone who's spent time in Lawrence or Manhattan, KS, will back me up on this one
Public beta in September? Almost makes me want to go out and buy a Mac just for this...
And Deja has taken the time, *and*money* to make your post accessible to more people
If I posted to Usenet from a regular old news browser, did I ask Deja to make my post available to more people? No, I don't have anything to do with Deja. Yet they can use my post as a form of advertisement to their users. And it IS a form of advertisement, no matter how Deja tries to spin it.
Perhaps Deja should think about limiting this form of linking to those posts posted through their service.
the almighty Jesse Burst moron
Yeah, but I wouldn't mind being him right about now. I bet that's one rich zealot that rolled out of bed this morning.
Why would they merge them? Chances are the average surfer isn't going to notice that both web sites have that little "ZDC-Net" (or, maybe C-NetDavis?) icon in the top right corner.
"Say, I just read a great review of Diakatana2 over at Gamecenter.com, but I'm suspicious!"
"Well, Gamespot.com also gave it a 90% rating!"
"Wow! I'm sold!"
Man, I can remember when it looked like Ziff-Davis was going to take over the entire world. Now, bought out by CNet. Oh, how the mighty have fallen...
Too bad, though, that CN chose to take off the Saturday night "Toonami" block they used to have on. Talk about sweet: come home from the bar, just in time to see Thundercats, Robotech, and Voltron. Now we get episodes of Scooby-Doo and The Flintstones that I've seen 50+ times. Blah.
On a side note: when the hell is CN going to get us Transformers? Is this show locked in syndication hell or something? As popular as this show was, I can't belive CN hasn't picked it up, considering some of the other garbage they throw up on occasion (Pirates of Dark Water? Gary Colman Show?). A side order of GI Joe would be nice as well...
At least he has a +1 bonus to abuse. Perhaps if you weren't an Anonymous Coward, someone might care what you think.
Wolverine actually makes the best point in the movie regarding this:
"If you really belived in what you were doing, it would be you in that machine".
Not word for word. If Magneto HAD been willing to sacrifice himself to run the machine, you could make the argument that he's a tragic hero of some kind. The fact that he chooses to sacrifice Rouge, however, makes him a villian.
That, of course, must be said in one's best Apu voice
More wisdom from the Church of Apu.
"Silly Customer! You cannot hurt a Twinkie!"
"Please do not offer my God a peanut."
And of course, the all-time classic:
"Thank you for coming! I'll see you in hell!"
The problem with most alternative fuel sources is that they don't offer the performance of petroleum-based gas in a combustion engine does. I don't know about natural gas or fuel cells, but it's always been a big strike against electric cars.
Even if the average American driver doesn't do it on a regular basis, they still would like the ability to "drop the hammer" and do 0-60 in under X amount of seconds, and do 100+mph on the open highway. Just take a look at any car commercial on TV. They all talk about performance, handling tight curves, etc. Hell, they make mini-vans and SUV's seem like sports cars.
Until an alternative fuel comes along that cane match or exceed the performance a gas-combustible can give, we will all remain Exxon's bitch. Call it the "Dukes of Hazard" syndrome I guess...
I have used their distros (2.3, 2.4), and I must say I like them a lot. They're definitely aimed at the novice Linux user (like me): Corel is definitely not Slackware. Still, they include most-if-not-all the apps you'd expect, and have some great Novell IPX support. If Novell would hurry up and release Client for Linux, and either WordPerfect or StarOffice was just a little better with MSOffice conversions, I'd be looking at Corel for desktop replacements within the company. Rejoice, brothers and sisters: the end of Windows is nigh! ;)
Jesse Berst (and ZDNet on a whole) seems to have one thing in mind when writing an article: How can I get more people to visit this article on my web site? The answer: write the most inflamatory thing possible without going totally over the top. After all, what better way to drive up those hit totals than to get yourself slash-dotted?
The problem is that our society tries to pretend it doesn't happen....But to pretend we live in a nice, sanitary world, where cows just sort of magically turn into hamburger is to be in serious denial.
I think that most people fully realize that eating meat involves the killing of some kind of animal. What kind of remedy would you propose to our "nice, sanitary world"? Remind people of where their hamburger is coming at every opportunity? Pictures of cows being butchered on menus? What point would this serve?
People had a much better understanding of things when eating meat meant personally killing animals. When eating a chicken meant going and getting a live one, and wringing its neck on your own. But now we're so removed from that, we want to pretend that the meat just magically appears, in a factory some where.
A better understanding of what? Where the phrase, "Running around like a chicken with it's head cut off" came from? So what if someone has never wrung a chicken's neck before. It doesn't mean they think chickens come from "Happy Magic Food Land".
I've personally killed chickens/pheasants/quail, and plucked and cleaned them. I've caught fish, cut the skin off them while they were still half-alive, and carved the meat away from their bones. I've seen cows/pigs/deer butchered first hand. Does this mean that I have more of a right to eat meat then someone who hasn't done these things? What kind of logic is that?
They DON'T let copyright infringers use their service. As soon as a user is identified as a violator (a la Metallica and Dr. Dre) they pull you off.
Damn, that's funny. Do you also believe that the government is working for your best interests, and Microsoft is engaging in fair business practices?
All right, Flame Off. Let's consider a few things:
- Would Napster have removed accounts of any users if Metallica and Dre had not threatened them with a lawsuit?
- What about all the other songs transferred daily on Napster. Does Napster really believe that only Metallica and Dre songs are traded illegally? What steps is Napster taking to ensure that Kid Rock and Korn songs aren't illegally traded?
Napster is a joke. The idea that there is any legal use for this program is laughable. There are any number of software apps that will allow you to convert CD tracks to MP3's for your personal use. Artists who want to distribute their music for free can post their MP3's on a web site. The only thing Napster is used for by 99% of the people who use it is to get copyrighted material for free.
Hedge is what your looking for. Little smoke, and will burn forever.