Rather than picking 7 years of the Trek universe and focusing on one lousy ship and crew, they would have half a dozen shows focusing on some interesting aspect of the whole Trek future history. Show them from different races points of view, even.
That's a neat idea and lots of us would like it. It can never happen, though.
A TV show or any other entertainment property is all about building equity. You invest in the characters and the stories... you need to be able to sell lunch pails and action figures. A show that jumped around could never build that kind of momentum. While it might be a GREAT show, it wouldn't be the KIND of great that the studio would really support... I think it would be the dreaded "critically acclaimed" type of thing.
(I also think that you'd lose the majority of the public by jumping all over... the STUPID majority, sure, but you gotta play the numbers.)
I wouldn't say that it rocks, but by god it's far better than Hercules in Space.
I WISH Andromeda was as good as Hercules in Space. Herc & Xena both had this quirky charm that made them very appealing to me -- and there was lots of fightin' and good-looking women. Sorbo even at least TRIED to act -- and his supporting cast was good enough to carry the show despite his wooden nature.
Andromeda has almost nothing going for it, and I say that as a rabid SF fan who will watch nearly any piece of sh!t with a spaceship in it. I tried, I really did, but Andromeda made me cringe every time I watched it. Andromeda makes Enterprise look like high art, like something worthy of a government grant, even though Enterprise doesn't have a hottie ship's computer. And if there is one thing I can't get enough of, it's a hottie hologram... but even that can't get me to watch the show.
(I can't stand Lexx either. Farscape I have tried to watch but it's been weak... I am hoping that it was just bad luck with the episodes I saw, I will give it another shot some day under friends' advice.)
If you are depressed by Andromeda or Enterprise, let me recomemnd "24." So far, 24 is the best TV series I have ever seen. Ever. They replay it once a week on FOX and also on FX, I think... look for it Sunday night, then catch the new one. You'll be glad you did.
(well, M*A*S*H is hard to beat, but classic TV is a different category...)
The whole point of the "copy protection circumvenstion" was to allow for FAIR USE OF DIGITAL MATERIAL.
You would be more accurate saying, "The whole point of the 'copy protection circumvention' was to allow for the kind of activities that we became accustomed to under the old-style 'fair use' rules."
Not that I agree in principle with with what happened to that Russian programmer, but as I understand it, it was all done by the book. It just so happens that the book has sunk to new lows.
"Fair use" of digital media is a shadow now, trumped -- legally -- by the DMCA. "They" passed a law that lets the publisher remove your right to manipulate things like e-books in certain ways. As a consumer AND a publisher I think it sucks, but it's the law of the land until a court overturns it, and that isn't going to happen without a high-profile case.
The last parameter makes it look like the sales link is passing on affiliate info, so that the story submitter is making cash from each transaction. Knock off "&from=MJF138" and you still get to the book page.
I wonder how many sales will be made and how much commission chrisd will earn as a result of this slashdot post?
In the context of a commercial site, is it proper to disclose that the content creators are profiting in this way?
Would it be more appropriate for this site to choose a charity like the EFF and send affiliate commissions to them, when stories tied to products were run?
This isn't a flame, even if it turns out that the submitter is making a packet of the fatbrain affiliate program. I just thought it was worth talking about.
For the sake of being a curmudgeon, here's a link to the book at Amazon. It's a better site anway, it shows more info about the book, including interior pages.
and the third was a Quantum fireball 1 gig which died on my recently (the BIOS just stopped recognising it...odd.)
Maybe the drive is OK. My Abit BH-6 board lost one of its IDE channels. I thought I had drive problems too until I figured out the mobo had flaked out.
Having 1 IDE channel on the primary box sucks, but it gave me an excuse to go buy 1 big hard drive and put the other drives to use elsewhere in the house.:)
Dude, if you think the hard drive has anything to do with AOL, you're nuts. By now, EVERYONE should know that it's the Intel Pentium 4 that gives you the blazing fast Internet experience you crave!
But this doesn't matter anymore, right? The DMCA allows the publisher to interfere with this right. That's why it was passed. Their rights trump ours now, that's the whole point of the law.
The DMCA will need to be attacked directly, and I am not sure how since 'backup copies' may not even be a Constitutional issue. Of course, IANAL.
I still like the show, but c'mon; too much kissing, not enough killing. It's Sunnyvale 90210 now.
IMHO, Angel is a far better show than Buffy at the current time. It's a little too smoochy-face too, but it has this weird charm that Buffy can't match. For me, anyway.
I'm pretty sure that those that had terrible things happen to them in WWII will never forget, they don't need people displaying memorabilia like this to be reminded.
And what about the next generations? Pretty soon, everyone who lived through WW2 will be dead.
Do you really think we'll all be safer if no one can remember what a swastika looks like?
Personally, I think that anti-hate laws are a good thing. Freedom can only exist within limitations.
I think anti-hate laws are crazy. Pure crazy moon-talk.
It's ALREADY illegal to beat someone up/kill them/etc. Is it really worse to do it because they're black (for example) than to do it because they nailed your wife? Why is one cause worthy of different legal treatment? Ooh, it's a crime based on HATE rather than old fashioned RAGE and STUPIDITY, we better throw the book at them!
Anti-hate laws are pandering to special-interest groups, and/or are some way for white guys to salve their own guilt about past events. In the end, I think they will do more harm than good, because the give special status to some people and that makes other people resentful.
(I don't support affirmitive action either, I think it cheapens the accomplishments of the minorities it claims to protect. But that's another argument.)
It's time for us all to grow up and lose our hyphenated nationality titles and all the stupid laws that protect & encourage their use.
Just my $0.02... better go put on my asbestos typing gloves now...
A whole bunch of people work for the CIA. They aren't all "sick fucks." If you don't like the cat thing, fine... but without "intelligence" we'd be a lot worse off than we are with it.
The CIA may do some distasteful things, but you can't condemn them all for that, and you are definitely enjoying some protection from the agency.
That site is nutty. Can you provide a link to a site with hemp facts that doesn't go on about the wacky tobaccy? I just want the facts on the one part, not the other.
I think that the crossover between the industrial hemp and pothead crowd is killing your crusade as well as any gov't conspiracy.:)
I found a reference to a liquid gas tank explosion in Cleveland 1944, killing 130. 1903 sounds too early for that anyway... but post if you have a link. Sounds interesting.
hydrogen fuel cells are better than batteries because of the rate they can deliver energy. It's difficult to make an electric car that can make a decent top speed.
Not necessarily true. Some batteries do a great job at dumping current really fast. Electric cars have pretty good pickup. I have heard a lot of complaints about them, but speed isn't one of them.
Here's a link where someone talks about how peppy the EV1 is. Even if he's exaggerating, the thing clearly isn't a slug.
You can enable root login in the NetInfoManager. When you do, it asks you to put in a root password, and then you can log in or su to root if you want.
(Assuming that a settlement like this goes into effect...)
While I don't put those kind of shenanigans past MS, now that they have taken a hit from the legal system people *may* be willing to stand up to them. For example, I don't think that kind of strong-arming would go over well at Dell or Gateway. If Bill tried to get all Godfather on a big PC manufacturer, I hope the manufacturer would document the hell out of everything and take their ass back to court.
It's the small guys that will continue to remain at risk, unless the DOJ is vigilant.
I think it is likely that some of the big compuer shops will sell dual-boot systems when they are able to. Dell etc. should have a strong interest in promoting non-MS operating systems, simply because in the long run it may save them money.
In the broader sense, computers that can do more & different stuff may expand their market, too.
Variety is good. There certainly are non-trivial costs for supporting a new OS, but there are possibly non-trivial rewards, too.
What about The Matrix DVD's "White Rabbit" mode? If you activate that feature, you watch the film as normal but once in a while a white rabbit icon will appear on the screen. If you click your remote, you see a making-of clip for that scene, and then you are returned to the movie.
It's an interactive game, though admittedly a lame one.
2) The injunctive relief is necessary to prevent some sort of serious damage to the plantiffs.
But just damage isn't enough, it has to be damage caused by something that is actually ILLEGAL, right? Otherwise the horse and buggy company could get an injunction against the car comapny for having a superior product.
To me, this is sort of like that. The networks will just have to adapt to a new way of doing things.
Oh, no, wait, they will just have to file suits and injunctions and get their way in the end -- I was being an idealist, silly me!
ReplayTV has a FFW control that works the same way as Tivo, it backs up a bit when you hit Play. How much it backs up depends on how fast you were going.
It *also* has a dedicated 30-sec skip button. In addition, if you push a number and then the skip button, it jumps that many minutes ahead. For some of my shows with regular-sized breaks, I can do 3-skip and boom, I'm back in the action.
RTV and Tivo are both cool. Each does a few things better than the other. But I would give the nod to Replay for transport controls based on what I know.
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Yet what happens when advertising executives realize that no one is watching their adds anymore? They're going to pull funding from you favorite TV channels.
A good business will find a way to adapt to the times. If the networks can't survive with widespread commercial skipping -- I don't care. Their profit is not our responsibility. If they go away, something else will turn up.
I would go so far to say that the networks are in fact "the enemy" for trying to stop the development of innovative products with their silly lawsuits. Our civil rights can be curtailed not only by the government, but by these kind of activities. If you can't get a law passed, pull the wool over a dumb judge's eyes to get your way...
Ack. When did everything start to suck so much?
I just hope that when Sonic|Blue loses they don't have to take the 30 sec skip button away from my current RTV unit.
(Yes, that's a pipe character in the name, that's how it is in their logo. Ridiculous, but not as bad as:CueCat.)
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People dealing with realistic problems like running from aliens fighting aliens and alien conspiracies...?
I think the Simpsons has more real-life problems, and that includes the episode where they try to find the silver tongue of Jeremiah Springfield.
Rather than picking 7 years of the Trek universe and focusing on one lousy ship and crew, they would have half a dozen shows focusing on some interesting aspect of the whole Trek future history. Show them from different races points of view, even.
That's a neat idea and lots of us would like it. It can never happen, though.
A TV show or any other entertainment property is all about building equity. You invest in the characters and the stories... you need to be able to sell lunch pails and action figures. A show that jumped around could never build that kind of momentum. While it might be a GREAT show, it wouldn't be the KIND of great that the studio would really support... I think it would be the dreaded "critically acclaimed" type of thing.
(I also think that you'd lose the majority of the public by jumping all over... the STUPID majority, sure, but you gotta play the numbers.)
I wouldn't say that it rocks, but by god it's far better than Hercules in Space.
I WISH Andromeda was as good as Hercules in Space. Herc & Xena both had this quirky charm that made them very appealing to me -- and there was lots of fightin' and good-looking women. Sorbo even at least TRIED to act -- and his supporting cast was good enough to carry the show despite his wooden nature.
Andromeda has almost nothing going for it, and I say that as a rabid SF fan who will watch nearly any piece of sh!t with a spaceship in it. I tried, I really did, but Andromeda made me cringe every time I watched it. Andromeda makes Enterprise look like high art, like something worthy of a government grant, even though Enterprise doesn't have a hottie ship's computer. And if there is one thing I can't get enough of, it's a hottie hologram... but even that can't get me to watch the show.
(I can't stand Lexx either. Farscape I have tried to watch but it's been weak... I am hoping that it was just bad luck with the episodes I saw, I will give it another shot some day under friends' advice.)
If you are depressed by Andromeda or Enterprise, let me recomemnd "24." So far, 24 is the best TV series I have ever seen. Ever. They replay it once a week on FOX and also on FX, I think... look for it Sunday night, then catch the new one. You'll be glad you did.
(well, M*A*S*H is hard to beat, but classic TV is a different category...)
Doing math should never be illegal.
The whole point of the "copy protection circumvenstion" was to allow for FAIR USE OF DIGITAL MATERIAL.
You would be more accurate saying, "The whole point of the 'copy protection circumvention' was to allow for the kind of activities that we became accustomed to under the old-style 'fair use' rules."
Not that I agree in principle with with what happened to that Russian programmer, but as I understand it, it was all done by the book. It just so happens that the book has sunk to new lows.
"Fair use" of digital media is a shadow now, trumped -- legally -- by the DMCA. "They" passed a law that lets the publisher remove your right to manipulate things like e-books in certain ways. As a consumer AND a publisher I think it sucks, but it's the law of the land until a court overturns it, and that isn't going to happen without a high-profile case.
Check out the URL given for the book. It ends in:
bookinfo.asp?theisbn=0312242646&from=MJF138
The last parameter makes it look like the sales link is passing on affiliate info, so that the story submitter is making cash from each transaction. Knock off "&from=MJF138" and you still get to the book page.
I wonder how many sales will be made and how much commission chrisd will earn as a result of this slashdot post?
In the context of a commercial site, is it proper to disclose that the content creators are profiting in this way?
Would it be more appropriate for this site to choose a charity like the EFF and send affiliate commissions to them, when stories tied to products were run?
This isn't a flame, even if it turns out that the submitter is making a packet of the fatbrain affiliate program. I just thought it was worth talking about.
For the sake of being a curmudgeon, here's a link to the book at Amazon. It's a better site anway, it shows more info about the book, including interior pages.
and the third was a Quantum fireball 1 gig which died on my recently (the BIOS just stopped recognising it...odd.)
:)
Maybe the drive is OK. My Abit BH-6 board lost one of its IDE channels. I thought I had drive problems too until I figured out the mobo had flaked out.
Having 1 IDE channel on the primary box sucks, but it gave me an excuse to go buy 1 big hard drive and put the other drives to use elsewhere in the house.
Dude, if you think the hard drive has anything to do with AOL, you're nuts. By now, EVERYONE should know that it's the Intel Pentium 4 that gives you the blazing fast Internet experience you crave!
2. Prove the lost ability to make a backup copy.
But this doesn't matter anymore, right? The DMCA allows the publisher to interfere with this right. That's why it was passed. Their rights trump ours now, that's the whole point of the law.
The DMCA will need to be attacked directly, and I am not sure how since 'backup copies' may not even be a Constitutional issue. Of course, IANAL.
I still like the show, but c'mon; too much kissing, not enough killing. It's Sunnyvale 90210 now.
IMHO, Angel is a far better show than Buffy at the current time. It's a little too smoochy-face too, but it has this weird charm that Buffy can't match. For me, anyway.
I'm pretty sure that those that had terrible things happen to them in WWII will never forget, they don't need people displaying memorabilia like this to be reminded.
And what about the next generations? Pretty soon, everyone who lived through WW2 will be dead.
Do you really think we'll all be safer if no one can remember what a swastika looks like?
Personally, I think that anti-hate laws are a good thing. Freedom can only exist within limitations.
I think anti-hate laws are crazy. Pure crazy moon-talk.
It's ALREADY illegal to beat someone up/kill them/etc. Is it really worse to do it because they're black (for example) than to do it because they nailed your wife? Why is one cause worthy of different legal treatment? Ooh, it's a crime based on HATE rather than old fashioned RAGE and STUPIDITY, we better throw the book at them!
Anti-hate laws are pandering to special-interest groups, and/or are some way for white guys to salve their own guilt about past events. In the end, I think they will do more harm than good, because the give special status to some people and that makes other people resentful.
(I don't support affirmitive action either, I think it cheapens the accomplishments of the minorities it claims to protect. But that's another argument.)
It's time for us all to grow up and lose our hyphenated nationality titles and all the stupid laws that protect & encourage their use.
Just my $0.02... better go put on my asbestos typing gloves now...
A whole bunch of people work for the CIA. They aren't all "sick fucks." If you don't like the cat thing, fine... but without "intelligence" we'd be a lot worse off than we are with it.
The CIA may do some distasteful things, but you can't condemn them all for that, and you are definitely enjoying some protection from the agency.
All computers should sound like the Voice of World Control. Audio clips from Colossus: The Forbin Project are here for your enjoyment.
If Stephen Hawking sounded like this, he would have taken over the world long ago.
That site is nutty. Can you provide a link to a site with hemp facts that doesn't go on about the wacky tobaccy? I just want the facts on the one part, not the other.
I think that the crossover between the industrial hemp and pothead crowd is killing your crusade as well as any gov't conspiracy.
I found a reference to a liquid gas tank explosion in Cleveland 1944, killing 130. 1903 sounds too early for that anyway... but post if you have a link. Sounds interesting.
hydrogen fuel cells are better than batteries because of the rate they can deliver energy. It's difficult to make an electric car that can make a decent top speed.
Not necessarily true. Some batteries do a great job at dumping current really fast. Electric cars have pretty good pickup. I have heard a lot of complaints about them, but speed isn't one of them.
Here's a link where someone talks about how peppy the EV1 is. Even if he's exaggerating, the thing clearly isn't a slug.
I have a BH-6 rev 1.01 and I am overclocked to 850 at the moment. I think that required a BIOS flash though.
I didn't think that they actually had a 1.0 version on the market.
You can enable root login in the NetInfoManager. When you do, it asks you to put in a root password, and then you can log in or su to root if you want.
(Assuming that a settlement like this goes into effect...)
While I don't put those kind of shenanigans past MS, now that they have taken a hit from the legal system people *may* be willing to stand up to them. For example, I don't think that kind of strong-arming would go over well at Dell or Gateway. If Bill tried to get all Godfather on a big PC manufacturer, I hope the manufacturer would document the hell out of everything and take their ass back to court.
It's the small guys that will continue to remain at risk, unless the DOJ is vigilant.
I think it is likely that some of the big compuer shops will sell dual-boot systems when they are able to. Dell etc. should have a strong interest in promoting non-MS operating systems, simply because in the long run it may save them money.
In the broader sense, computers that can do more & different stuff may expand their market, too.
Variety is good. There certainly are non-trivial costs for supporting a new OS, but there are possibly non-trivial rewards, too.
What about The Matrix DVD's "White Rabbit" mode? If you activate that feature, you watch the film as normal but once in a while a white rabbit icon will appear on the screen. If you click your remote, you see a making-of clip for that scene, and then you are returned to the movie.
It's an interactive game, though admittedly a lame one.
2) The injunctive relief is necessary to prevent some sort of serious damage to the plantiffs.
But just damage isn't enough, it has to be damage caused by something that is actually ILLEGAL, right? Otherwise the horse and buggy company could get an injunction against the car comapny for having a superior product.
To me, this is sort of like that. The networks will just have to adapt to a new way of doing things.
Oh, no, wait, they will just have to file suits and injunctions and get their way in the end -- I was being an idealist, silly me!
ReplayTV has a FFW control that works the same way as Tivo, it backs up a bit when you hit Play. How much it backs up depends on how fast you were going.
It *also* has a dedicated 30-sec skip button. In addition, if you push a number and then the skip button, it jumps that many minutes ahead. For some of my shows with regular-sized breaks, I can do 3-skip and boom, I'm back in the action.
RTV and Tivo are both cool. Each does a few things better than the other. But I would give the nod to Replay for transport controls based on what I know.
Yet what happens when advertising executives realize that no one is watching their adds anymore? They're going to pull funding from you favorite TV channels.
:CueCat.)
A good business will find a way to adapt to the times. If the networks can't survive with widespread commercial skipping -- I don't care. Their profit is not our responsibility. If they go away, something else will turn up.
I would go so far to say that the networks are in fact "the enemy" for trying to stop the development of innovative products with their silly lawsuits. Our civil rights can be curtailed not only by the government, but by these kind of activities. If you can't get a law passed, pull the wool over a dumb judge's eyes to get your way...
Ack. When did everything start to suck so much?
I just hope that when Sonic|Blue loses they don't have to take the 30 sec skip button away from my current RTV unit.
(Yes, that's a pipe character in the name, that's how it is in their logo. Ridiculous, but not as bad as