But Futurama only had 4 production seasons. The 5 airtime seasons is a result of a) the show being a springtime replacement in the spring of 1999 (premiering 3/28/1999 btw), and b) the show being constantly pre-empted by Fox for football, NASCAR and other stupid reasons (let's show 2 old King of the Hill eps instead of Futurama this week!).
Katie may well have been free from Futurama responsibilities because the 4th production season would have been the 2001-2002 series (season 1 = 1999, 2 = 1999-2000, 3 = 2000-2001). Also, according to Billy West on his website, they do the voice acting BEFORE the animation production, not AFTER (as I always had it figured).
Finally, IIRC, Fox declined to order a 5th season in early 2002, leaving Katie plenty of time to hook up with 8SR, assuming it started in the fall 2002 lineup.
Hello... "Do the executives ever watch these programs...?"
Well, yes... they probably do. But, since they're executives, there's a slim chance that they're also geeky enough to "get" Futurama. Futurama was packed with side jokes related to programming, physics, linguistics, etc. No executive worth his washroom key would understand any of that...
... and American Idol is only on for a few months in the spring, and, AFAIK, isn't shown in repeats. Fox NEEDS the Simpsons. I'd guess that, right now, they're just waiting to see if the Simpsons' voice artists will back down any. Either that, or they are the most clueless idiots on planet earth... or both.
Yes, Katie Sagal is on ABCs 8 simple rules for dating my teenage daughter, the show John Ritter was also starring in when he passed away last year. Who knows if the show will last past this year, though. I don't watch it, and haven't paid any attention to how it is doing.
That said, back in the early 90s, Yeardley Smith was concurrently playing in Herman's Head and doing the voice of Lisa Simpson. Of course, those were both Fox shows, whereas Sagal would end up on two different networks...
Uh... it's just like a job. If you are offered a job, the employer will make you an offer. You can either agree, or make a counter-demand. If you can't reach an agreement, then no job for you. In this case, I don't think the employer is interested in negotiations. There's nothing unique (to them) about your computer.
Did anyone notice the statement that xmms was a great program for playing mp3s? On RedHat? Without mentioning that you have to download and install mp3 libraries, due to the proprietary nature of the mp3 codec...
That was in the aforementioned first article. They go through all the common hardware issues. In fact, I wish the first article had been printed a week earlier. I got to suffer through installing linux on a machine with the nforce chipset. It's not so bad if you're prepared. Me, I had to use one machine (iBook) to download the drivers, ssh to a second (headless linux) machine, dump it to floppy (yes, floppy), then upload from floppy on the third machine.
I switched to straight EE the next semester. I decided I'd rather design microprocessors than program them. Even thermodynamics was easier than that lab. (And we used Kittel and Kroemer's wacked-out thermo text.)
Really!?!? You mean someone out there other than physics majors has to use that awful POS textbook? My class in thermal physics was entirely incomprehensible.
Case in point... taking the mid-term, I was completely clueless as to what I was doing and was certain I'd failed it. When I got the test back... 100%! On the final, I thought I finally had a clue... got a 70%. At least that averaged to 85 for a nice solid B.
I have the SE t68i. You are only supposed to be able to connect to it via bluetooth when the phone is in discoverable mode. The window for discoverable mode is 3 minutes on my phone, and when any device tries to pair with it, I put in a password (ie, it's not a stored password) and the other device has to enter the same password.
I think the point of bluesnarfing is exploiting a bug in the bluetooth stack that bypasses the discoverable mode requirement and the one time password pairing step.
Which just goes to show that, for anything you can legally sell on eBay (and some things that aren't legal), you will find someone dumb enough to buy it. If you're lucky, you'll find more than one idiot and sell it for twice FMV!
As you quoted... "AOL won the car... as PART of a court settlement..." That phrasing makes me believe that this is not "all AOL got"! If they also obtained cash, a) do you think they're going to tell you how much, and b) do you think there would be a public raffle of money? They're just trying to liquidate the spammer's former assets. The cash is already liquid.
No... power is energy per unit time... P = dE/dt. For constant energy sources, E = Pt. You shorten your pulse for a given power (wattage), you *decrease* your total energy delivered.
Well, I hate to break it to you, but what's stopping TW/Charter/Cox/etc. from charging you $3/channel (or pick your favorite insane amount) on the a la carte plan? They will still be (essentially) a monopoly.
And what about the niche channel you like (TechTV maybe?) that the general populace couldn't care less about? Will you be happy when they go under because only a select few people want to pay for it?
I'd love to see a la carte television myself, but only if it's a reasonable price and the selection doesn't decrease. In reality, I just don't see that happening.
I have most certainly not lost the ability to eloquently express my emotions without resorting to profanity. However, because the crux of this issue is the use of profane language, I felt that its use would interject some humor into the conversation. Apparently, this point was lost on one of such mild disposition as yourself.
I do still stand by my statement that no one is compelling you to listen to anything you may find objectionable. If you find a particular radio station to be excessively foul for your liking, turn it off.
Never underestimate the power of "turn it off". If enough people "turn off" a particular station, their revenue stream (to wit, advertising) will dry up. However, there is sufficient evidence that a large number of people do not "turn off" programming which you seem to find offensive.
Take Howard Stern. He is immensely popular and extremely vulgar (often too much so for my rather liberal tastes). If his show had no listeners, it would soon find itself out of advertisers, and off the air. However, the current threat to Stern's show is not the lack of audience or advertising, but the very government itself.
Now, my own grandparents are dead, but I never had a problem with such a situation when they were alive. Tee-totaling, Bible-thumping Christians that they were, they understood that not everyone believed as they did, and that, if I were to stumble upon programming that was not in line with their preferences, it was certainly not intentional. The solution: turn it off.
I'm reminded of the quip "No chain is stronger than its weakest link." Sadly, I'm seeing an analogy in this country as of late: "No society is more liberal than its most conservative member."
Now, how's that for civil discourse? I didn't use a single damn profan...oops!
Well, I'm part of the public, and my wish is for the government to stop regulating every goddamned little thing in my life, from what I can watch on the television to when I'm supposed to take a shit. You don't like something on tv? Take some personal fucking responsibility and turn the damned thing off! Those of us who enjoy our smutty television will thank you!
I use Mozilla and OO.o on Windows. I'm at work. I have to use Windows, but no one says I HAVE to use IE. It was just the only thing installed when I got here. The only reason for me to use IE is the proprietary issue tracking system we use... portions of that won't work in Mozilla.
For a home user, think hardcore gamer who occassionally needs to run a word processor or spreadsheet. Not enough reason to drop $200+ on MS Office when OO.o would suffice. Now, if more games were released for linux at the same time they are released for windows, your suggestion would make a lot more sense.
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No, not any more... yet another modification to US Patent law to "help out the little guy".
The one problem with that is that the JWST is an infrared and near infrared telescope. 0.6 micron = 600 nm = red light. This won't give any coverage to the rest of the optical spectrum (~380-600 nm).
No no no no no... any tech company would immediately know SCO is full of shit. SCO is probably banking on being able to cow AutoZone into an out of court settlement to fatten the coffers. That way, they can afford to keep paying their lawyers pursuing the IBM case!
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Maybe because AOL owns netscape, and the netscape IM client is nothing more than a re-branded AIM?
But Futurama only had 4 production seasons. The 5 airtime seasons is a result of a) the show being a springtime replacement in the spring of 1999 (premiering 3/28/1999 btw), and b) the show being constantly pre-empted by Fox for football, NASCAR and other stupid reasons (let's show 2 old King of the Hill eps instead of Futurama this week!).
Katie may well have been free from Futurama responsibilities because the 4th production season would have been the 2001-2002 series (season 1 = 1999, 2 = 1999-2000, 3 = 2000-2001). Also, according to Billy West on his website, they do the voice acting BEFORE the animation production, not AFTER (as I always had it figured).
Finally, IIRC, Fox declined to order a 5th season in early 2002, leaving Katie plenty of time to hook up with 8SR, assuming it started in the fall 2002 lineup.
Hello... "Do the executives ever watch these programs...?"
Well, yes... they probably do. But, since they're executives, there's a slim chance that they're also geeky enough to "get" Futurama. Futurama was packed with side jokes related to programming, physics, linguistics, etc. No executive worth his washroom key would understand any of that...
... and American Idol is only on for a few months in the spring, and, AFAIK, isn't shown in repeats. Fox NEEDS the Simpsons. I'd guess that, right now, they're just waiting to see if the Simpsons' voice artists will back down any. Either that, or they are the most clueless idiots on planet earth... or both.
Yes, Katie Sagal is on ABCs 8 simple rules for dating my teenage daughter, the show John Ritter was also starring in when he passed away last year. Who knows if the show will last past this year, though. I don't watch it, and haven't paid any attention to how it is doing.
... but here's to wishful thinking!
That said, back in the early 90s, Yeardley Smith was concurrently playing in Herman's Head and doing the voice of Lisa Simpson. Of course, those were both Fox shows, whereas Sagal would end up on two different networks...
Who knows!?!
Uh... it's just like a job. If you are offered a job, the employer will make you an offer. You can either agree, or make a counter-demand. If you can't reach an agreement, then no job for you. In this case, I don't think the employer is interested in negotiations. There's nothing unique (to them) about your computer.
Did anyone notice the statement that xmms was a great program for playing mp3s? On RedHat? Without mentioning that you have to download and install mp3 libraries, due to the proprietary nature of the mp3 codec...
Oops!
That was in the aforementioned first article. They go through all the common hardware issues. In fact, I wish the first article had been printed a week earlier. I got to suffer through installing linux on a machine with the nforce chipset. It's not so bad if you're prepared. Me, I had to use one machine (iBook) to download the drivers, ssh to a second (headless linux) machine, dump it to floppy (yes, floppy), then upload from floppy on the third machine.
Now, the job is just offshored, instead of outsourced.
Case in point... taking the mid-term, I was completely clueless as to what I was doing and was certain I'd failed it. When I got the test back... 100%! On the final, I thought I finally had a clue... got a 70%. At least that averaged to 85 for a nice solid B.
I have the SE t68i. You are only supposed to be able to connect to it via bluetooth when the phone is in discoverable mode. The window for discoverable mode is 3 minutes on my phone, and when any device tries to pair with it, I put in a password (ie, it's not a stored password) and the other device has to enter the same password.
I think the point of bluesnarfing is exploiting a bug in the bluetooth stack that bypasses the discoverable mode requirement and the one time password pairing step.
Which just goes to show that, for anything you can legally sell on eBay (and some things that aren't legal), you will find someone dumb enough to buy it. If you're lucky, you'll find more than one idiot and sell it for twice FMV!
As you quoted... "AOL won the car... as PART of a court settlement..." That phrasing makes me believe that this is not "all AOL got"! If they also obtained cash, a) do you think they're going to tell you how much, and b) do you think there would be a public raffle of money? They're just trying to liquidate the spammer's former assets. The cash is already liquid.
No... power is energy per unit time... P = dE/dt. For constant energy sources, E = Pt. You shorten your pulse for a given power (wattage), you *decrease* your total energy delivered.
Well, I hate to break it to you, but what's stopping TW/Charter/Cox/etc. from charging you $3/channel (or pick your favorite insane amount) on the a la carte plan? They will still be (essentially) a monopoly.
And what about the niche channel you like (TechTV maybe?) that the general populace couldn't care less about? Will you be happy when they go under because only a select few people want to pay for it?
I'd love to see a la carte television myself, but only if it's a reasonable price and the selection doesn't decrease. In reality, I just don't see that happening.
No. I live less than 10 miles from an apple store, and have paid no tax on my iTMS purchases.
I have most certainly not lost the ability to eloquently express my emotions without resorting to profanity. However, because the crux of this issue is the use of profane language, I felt that its use would interject some humor into the conversation. Apparently, this point was lost on one of such mild disposition as yourself.
I do still stand by my statement that no one is compelling you to listen to anything you may find objectionable. If you find a particular radio station to be excessively foul for your liking, turn it off.
Never underestimate the power of "turn it off". If enough people "turn off" a particular station, their revenue stream (to wit, advertising) will dry up. However, there is sufficient evidence that a large number of people do not "turn off" programming which you seem to find offensive.
Take Howard Stern. He is immensely popular and extremely vulgar (often too much so for my rather liberal tastes). If his show had no listeners, it would soon find itself out of advertisers, and off the air. However, the current threat to Stern's show is not the lack of audience or advertising, but the very government itself.
Now, my own grandparents are dead, but I never had a problem with such a situation when they were alive. Tee-totaling, Bible-thumping Christians that they were, they understood that not everyone believed as they did, and that, if I were to stumble upon programming that was not in line with their preferences, it was certainly not intentional. The solution: turn it off.
I'm reminded of the quip "No chain is stronger than its weakest link." Sadly, I'm seeing an analogy in this country as of late: "No society is more liberal than its most conservative member."
Now, how's that for civil discourse? I didn't use a single damn profan...oops!
Well, I'm part of the public, and my wish is for the government to stop regulating every goddamned little thing in my life, from what I can watch on the television to when I'm supposed to take a shit. You don't like something on tv? Take some personal fucking responsibility and turn the damned thing off! Those of us who enjoy our smutty television will thank you!
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Brian: Those are Cheerios, Peter.
I use Mozilla and OO.o on Windows. I'm at work. I have to use Windows, but no one says I HAVE to use IE. It was just the only thing installed when I got here. The only reason for me to use IE is the proprietary issue tracking system we use... portions of that won't work in Mozilla.
For a home user, think hardcore gamer who occassionally needs to run a word processor or spreadsheet. Not enough reason to drop $200+ on MS Office when OO.o would suffice. Now, if more games were released for linux at the same time they are released for windows, your suggestion would make a lot more sense.
No, not any more... yet another modification to US Patent law to "help out the little guy".
I'd have to give this post a +0, Ironic myself...
The one problem with that is that the JWST is an infrared and near infrared telescope. 0.6 micron = 600 nm = red light. This won't give any coverage to the rest of the optical spectrum (~380-600 nm).
No no no no no... any tech company would immediately know SCO is full of shit. SCO is probably banking on being able to cow AutoZone into an out of court settlement to fatten the coffers. That way, they can afford to keep paying their lawyers pursuing the IBM case!
My $0.02, or so...