Right, just like 90,000 Green Party voters went and principled George Bush right into office. If you want to make a difference, don't waste your time on third parties. Get involved with whatever major party fits your views most closely and yell loud enough until people start paying attention to you. By staying on the fence and voting for Nader or Buchanan you make yourself irrelevant.
I am tired of this let-children-see/do/say-as-they-please mentality
Its not that at all...there is a huge difference between educating your kid and letting them do whatever they want.
Children like to participate and be a part of adult things even though they aren't adults.
No, they don't. The typical reaction of a child to learning about sex is disgust, mine was a classic "you mean he PEES in here?!?" And if your kid is atypical and a horny bastard at the age of 7 you've got other problems to deal with and holding his or her head down into the sand wont solve the problem either.
they don't need to know... yet.
Yeah, it is nice that the world is going to wait until you're ready before it exposes your kids to anything you don't want them to see.
? You do know that the difference between NT/2k workstation/server is in a few lines in the registry and in the licensing. Oh, and another zero on the price tag.
Don't forget there is a delay between a cd going golden master and when you can actually run out and buy one. They need to press cd's so they have enough for the initial launch. 2k probably went golden master on the 9th of December but its unlikely that you were able to run out and buy a copy before January.
Apple is the sole maker of Macs and has control over the Mac market. Microsoft makes no PC's, yet has control over the PC market.
Apple is not a monopoly because they can do whatever they want to do with their own products. Microsoft is a monopoly because it has control over *other peoples* products.
Or at least as far as the sensationalist headline goes. That was a case of a gunman going into a place where people were counterfiting DVD's and selling them for profit, *not* a bunch of young people sitting around downloading stuff off of Kazaa. It was simply a case of a ciminal breaking into a place where other criminals were making money, then stealing that money.
You never would run into "rpm hell" as long as you only installed rpms that came with that version of RedHat. I ran into problems when I tried installing RealPlayer (cira 6.0 I think? Its been a while...). It needed library foo-1.4 to work, but that verison of RedHat only came with foo.1.3. So I ran out and found an rpm for libfoo-1.4, but when installed it said I needed libx-1.7, which conficted with liby-2.4, which conflicted with....
So eventually I said to hell with it, I only wanted to watch one clip, and tried going back to libfoo-1.3. But libfoo-1.4 didn't want to uninstall because RealPlayer depended on it. I tried uninstalling RealPlayer, but RedHat somehow "lost" it and didn't know it was installed!
So then I force removed all the new packages and went back to the old ones. Then a couple days later it suddenly remembered that RealPlayer was installed again, except I had deleted all the files........
At this point I called my friend over, who was running Slink (Debian) and had him show me how to install it, and never looked back.
This was a few years ago, and I'm sure RedHat has improved, but after mastering the install process, I won't run anything else but Debian.
Wrong! Windows 9x came from DOS, which Microsoft bought from Tim Paterson. Windows XP came from Windows 2000 which came from Windows NT which came from a joint project between IBM and Microsoft.
Sisko just didn't want to think himself capable of authorizing such a think
I was thinking of the scene where he's talking to himself and says that he'll live with it because they had to bring the Romulans into the war.
Besides, the Romulan was an asshole.:)
Yes he was.:) I'd forgotten that part, damn but that was a good episode.....
Another was the one where Miles finds everyone treating him strangely, including his (annoying) wife, and sinks into desperation, until
Yeah, I remember that one...great episode. The only episode I really liked from the first season was also pretty cool, where one of the most bloodthirsty Cardasians from the occpuation of Bajor is apparantly found, but isn't what he seems to be....
I do think McKellan would be a great choice, except that its too close to LOTR. He'd be playing the same charachter in each franchise: the wise, bearded, kindly old wizard.
You need to view that site sceptically as anywhere from 60-90% of the "mistakes" are just stupid people nitpicking the movie to death, or are just flat out wrong. Like someone posted a "mistake" for Spider-Man, that when Jameson throws his cigar butt out the window, the Goblin doesn't throw it back in, rather it hits the windowsill and bounces back. I watched for it to happen the second (and third) times I saw the movie, and yes it gets thrown outside the window and is tossed back by the Goblin.
Oh, and use a frikkin spoiler you jerk. I hope somebody told you what happens to Bruce at the end of 6th Sense before you saw the movie.
Not to assasinate....to convince the senator that the Dominion was planning an invasion of the Romulan Empire.
**SPOILER**
First Sisko wants Garak to find evidence that the Dominion was planning a surprise attack on the Romulan Empire. After that proves impossible, Garak suggests that they manufacture such evidence, and Sisko (very) relucantly agrees. The senator arrives in secret in a small cloaked ship with a few staff, and is shown a recording of Wayun (sp) and some Cardasians discussing the upcomming invasion of Romulus.
The senator analyzes the evidence and is furious when he discovers that its a fake, and leaves in a huff. Then his ship blows up on the way home. Sikso is pissed. He confronts Garak, who explains that he planted a bomb onboard the senators vessel in such a way that it killed everyone on board but left the data crystal intact. Sisko points out that they can just re-analyze the evidence and will again discover that it was a fake. Garak counters that any imperfections in the forgery will appear to be caused by the explosion.
The Romulans find the wreckage, the evidence, and declare war on the Dominion. The cool part of this episode was how Sisko gradually lost his inhibitions to doing a little dirty work.
to add insult to injury, how many times was the Enterprise and its experienced, battle-hardened crew completely destroyed by a broken, underpowered, 20-year old stolen Klingon ship, or a subspace anomaly?
Because Picard was a pussy? Pretty much every confrontation would go something like this:
Bad guys would fire at Enterprise.
Picard would sit in his chair and look perturbed.
Bad guys shoot at Enterprise some more.
Geordi would say shields are down to 30%
Picard: "hail them" (hail is ignored)
Bad guys shoot some more, shields down to 15%
Picard finally gives Worf the order to fire, but only at the weapons
on the enemy ship, with only one phaser burst or maybe a photon or two.
Picard: "hail them" (ignored)
Some diplomatic solotion is found, the Enterprise limps off having
the crap shot out of it while the bad buys merrily sail away to kick the
E's ass another time.
Common, how many times did the Romulans flagrantly violate the treaty and cross the Neutral Zone? WTF hasn't the Federation started using cloaking devices when the Romulans break the treaty at will? Question for you: in what TNG episode did Picard give Worf the order to fire at will (hint, none).
None of the other ST captains have been afraid to kick a little ass when they had to, especially Kirk and Sisko. My fav TOS episode is with the first Romulan ship to have a cloaking device, and Kirk chased it and blew the snot out of it. Sisko never took any crap from anybody from season one through the end of the show. Picard OTOH would let my gradma slap him silly.
Oh, to agree with at least one part of your post, B5 kicked ST's (any ST's) ass any day of the week. Unfortunatly it pretty much destroyed episodic shows for me, as I now hate it where everything goes back to normal at the end of every single episode (ie X-Files).
The author makes his "list" of how the movies are like by over generalizing and braking the plots up into the most basic levels. In both of these movies there's some time travel, so they must use the same plot!
A megalomaniac tries to seize the power of life itself ("S.T. II: The Wrath of Khan"; "S.T. V: The Final Frontier"; "S.T. VII: Generations"; "S.T. IX: Insurrection").
"Life itself" eh? In WOK it was a device that jump starts life on planets; in Generations (the fucker didn't even watch the movie) they basically go on a huge LSD trip, they didn't change the world; and Insurrection had the planet that reverses aging. You'll note I left out V but thats because I feel asleep during the movie.
A senior officer of the Enterprise comes back from the dead ("S.T. III: The Search for Spock"; "S.T. VII: Generations"), or a fate worse than death ("S.T. VIII: First Contact").
Kirk didn't die when he got sucked out of the ship you numbnuts. He just dropped some acid with Whoopi for a century or so. And nobody in Contact who was Borgified was rescued (a couple of patches of skin do not a Borg make).
The crew of the Enterprise goes back to an earlier century on Earth, to make sure that history happens as it should ("S.T. IV: The Voyage Home"; "S.T. VIII: First Contact").
In Voyage they went back in time to bring back some whales to save the present, not to keep the past from changing.
A spacecraft threatens to destroy Earth, and we're to blame, either because our technology is more advanced than our ethics ("S.T.: The Motion Picture") or because we've trashed other species ("S.T. IV: The Voyage Home").
He has a small point there, but that's two out of ten movies. Not like that other huge sci-fi franchise, where a small fighter causes a chain reaction that blows up a huge battlestation in 3 out of 6 movies.
That's the ticket: If someone discovers something that interferes with your preconceived notions, there must be an error, bias, or malice.
I saw a story about a study that supposedly showed that periphreal vision was greatly reduced while using a cell phone, because people tend to look straight ahead and not side to side. Except their method of gathering evidence was to put a big vizor on the head of the driver with little cameras that recorded eye movements. It didn't really prove anything, because what if the drivers vision is reduced because he's wearing this big frikkin thing with cameras on his head?
Derailing a train with a car? How did he manage that, did he fill it with depleted uranium? I would think a train hitting a car would be like hitting an empty beer can with a car.
My main point should have been this: when you're designing a standard, why not go with the best format with the longest track record? Why not go with apt-get which has been around for what, 4+ years now, instead of one thats cropped up in the last year and isn't as proven?
The only problems I've had with Debian was when I was running unstable. Under Redhat I ran into dependancy hell when only trying to install....sorry you need libz which needs libx.2, but libx.2 confilcts with packages a, b and c which need libx.1, and so on......
The apt groupies can't get it into their pointed heads that apt can work just fine with rpms.
What RPM goupies can't get into their pointed heads is that you can slap on an apt-like system onto RPM but that wont fix RPM's interdependancy problems. Its silly to think that just by slapping on another layer of package management that it will be "just as good" as a system that has been designed from the ground up not to have those problems, like Debians.
It's like if Microsoft and Apple just hacked multitasking and protected memory on top of the old MacOS and Win9x and claimed it was "just as good" as a unix kernel. Sheesh.
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Right, just like 90,000 Green Party voters went and principled George Bush right into office. If you want to make a difference, don't waste your time on third parties. Get involved with whatever major party fits your views most closely and yell loud enough until people start paying attention to you. By staying on the fence and voting for Nader or Buchanan you make yourself irrelevant.
I am tired of this let-children-see/do/say-as-they-please mentality
Its not that at all...there is a huge difference between educating your kid and letting them do whatever they want.
Children like to participate and be a part of adult things even though they aren't adults.
No, they don't. The typical reaction of a child to learning about sex is disgust, mine was a classic "you mean he PEES in here?!?" And if your kid is atypical and a horny bastard at the age of 7 you've got other problems to deal with and holding his or her head down into the sand wont solve the problem either.
they don't need to know... yet.
Yeah, it is nice that the world is going to wait until you're ready before it exposes your kids to anything you don't want them to see.
since nobody here ever reads the article anyway :P
? You do know that the difference between NT/2k workstation/server is in a few lines in the registry and in the licensing. Oh, and another zero on the price tag.
Don't forget there is a delay between a cd going golden master and when you can actually run out and buy one. They need to press cd's so they have enough for the initial launch. 2k probably went golden master on the 9th of December but its unlikely that you were able to run out and buy a copy before January.
Apple controls Macs because its their own produect. Microsoft has control over the PC market when it doens't make any.
yup, yup, yup
Apple is the sole maker of Macs and has control over the Mac market. Microsoft makes no PC's, yet has control over the PC market.
Apple is not a monopoly because they can do whatever they want to do with their own products. Microsoft is a monopoly because it has control over *other peoples* products.
And Pierce Brosnan is definitely getting too old to be Bond.
Heh. Brosnan is still a youngin by Bond standards....Roger Moore was a wrinkly 58 when his last Bond movie was released, View to a Kill.
Or at least as far as the sensationalist headline goes. That was a case of a gunman going into a place where people were counterfiting DVD's and selling them for profit, *not* a bunch of young people sitting around downloading stuff off of Kazaa. It was simply a case of a ciminal breaking into a place where other criminals were making money, then stealing that money.
You never would run into "rpm hell" as long as you only installed rpms that came with that version of RedHat. I ran into problems when I tried installing RealPlayer (cira 6.0 I think? Its been a while...). It needed library foo-1.4 to work, but that verison of RedHat only came with foo.1.3. So I ran out and found an rpm for libfoo-1.4, but when installed it said I needed libx-1.7, which conficted with liby-2.4, which conflicted with....
So eventually I said to hell with it, I only wanted to watch one clip, and tried going back to libfoo-1.3. But libfoo-1.4 didn't want to uninstall because RealPlayer depended on it. I tried uninstalling RealPlayer, but RedHat somehow "lost" it and didn't know it was installed!
So then I force removed all the new packages and went back to the old ones. Then a couple days later it suddenly remembered that RealPlayer was installed again, except I had deleted all the files........
At this point I called my friend over, who was running Slink (Debian) and had him show me how to install it, and never looked back.
This was a few years ago, and I'm sure RedHat has improved, but after mastering the install process, I won't run anything else but Debian.
but thats not the point...
:P
Yes...which wasn't that MS hasn't written any of their own code (which they have) but rather that it wasn't "from scratch" as the AC was claiming.
I just think is funny that all these peeps are picking nits at me while the AC aparantly things that Windows writes its own code.
Yeah, but it was a *really* good episode, and maybe some people haven't seen it yet. :)
Windows wrote theirs from scratch...
Wrong! Windows 9x came from DOS, which Microsoft bought from Tim Paterson. Windows XP came from Windows 2000 which came from Windows NT which came from a joint project between IBM and Microsoft.
Sisko just didn't want to think himself capable of authorizing such a think
:)
:) I'd forgotten that part, damn but that was a good episode.....
I was thinking of the scene where he's talking to himself and says that he'll live with it because they had to bring the Romulans into the war.
Besides, the Romulan was an asshole.
Yes he was.
Another was the one where Miles finds everyone treating him strangely, including his (annoying) wife, and sinks into desperation, until
Yeah, I remember that one...great episode. The only episode I really liked from the first season was also pretty cool, where one of the most bloodthirsty Cardasians from the occpuation of Bajor is apparantly found, but isn't what he seems to be....
I do think McKellan would be a great choice, except that its too close to LOTR. He'd be playing the same charachter in each franchise: the wise, bearded, kindly old wizard.
You need to view that site sceptically as anywhere from 60-90% of the "mistakes" are just stupid people nitpicking the movie to death, or are just flat out wrong. Like someone posted a "mistake" for Spider-Man, that when Jameson throws his cigar butt out the window, the Goblin doesn't throw it back in, rather it hits the windowsill and bounces back. I watched for it to happen the second (and third) times I saw the movie, and yes it gets thrown outside the window and is tossed back by the Goblin.
Oh, and use a frikkin spoiler you jerk. I hope somebody told you what happens to Bruce at the end of 6th Sense before you saw the movie.
Not to assasinate....to convince the senator that the Dominion was planning an invasion of the Romulan Empire.
**SPOILER**
First Sisko wants Garak to find evidence that the Dominion was planning a surprise attack on the Romulan Empire. After that proves impossible, Garak suggests that they manufacture such evidence, and Sisko (very) relucantly agrees. The senator arrives in secret in a small cloaked ship with a few staff, and is shown a recording of Wayun (sp) and some Cardasians discussing the upcomming invasion of Romulus.
The senator analyzes the evidence and is furious when he discovers that its a fake, and leaves in a huff. Then his ship blows up on the way home. Sikso is pissed. He confronts Garak, who explains that he planted a bomb onboard the senators vessel in such a way that it killed everyone on board but left the data crystal intact. Sisko points out that they can just re-analyze the evidence and will again discover that it was a fake. Garak counters that any imperfections in the forgery will appear to be caused by the explosion.
The Romulans find the wreckage, the evidence, and declare war on the Dominion. The cool part of this episode was how Sisko gradually lost his inhibitions to doing a little dirty work.
Because Picard was a pussy? Pretty much every confrontation would go something like this:
- Bad guys would fire at Enterprise.
- Picard would sit in his chair and look perturbed.
- Bad guys shoot at Enterprise some more.
- Geordi would say shields are down to 30%
- Picard: "hail them" (hail is ignored)
- Bad guys shoot some more, shields down to 15%
- Picard finally gives Worf the order to fire, but only at the weapons
on the enemy ship, with only one phaser burst or maybe a photon or two.
- Picard: "hail them" (ignored)
- Some diplomatic solotion is found, the Enterprise limps off having
the crap shot out of it while the bad buys merrily sail away to kick the
E's ass another time.
Common, how many times did the Romulans flagrantly violate the treaty and cross the Neutral Zone? WTF hasn't the Federation started using cloaking devices when the Romulans break the treaty at will? Question for you: in what TNG episode did Picard give Worf the order to fire at will (hint, none).None of the other ST captains have been afraid to kick a little ass when they had to, especially Kirk and Sisko. My fav TOS episode is with the first Romulan ship to have a cloaking device, and Kirk chased it and blew the snot out of it. Sisko never took any crap from anybody from season one through the end of the show. Picard OTOH would let my gradma slap him silly. Oh, to agree with at least one part of your post, B5 kicked ST's (any ST's) ass any day of the week. Unfortunatly it pretty much destroyed episodic shows for me, as I now hate it where everything goes back to normal at the end of every single episode (ie X-Files).
Momentary brain fart, that should have been 3 out of 5.
The author makes his "list" of how the movies are like by over generalizing and braking the plots up into the most basic levels. In both of these movies there's some time travel, so they must use the same plot!
A megalomaniac tries to seize the power of life itself ("S.T. II: The Wrath of Khan"; "S.T. V: The Final Frontier"; "S.T. VII: Generations"; "S.T. IX: Insurrection").
"Life itself" eh? In WOK it was a device that jump starts life on planets; in Generations (the fucker didn't even watch the movie) they basically go on a huge LSD trip, they didn't change the world; and Insurrection had the planet that reverses aging. You'll note I left out V but thats because I feel asleep during the movie.
A senior officer of the Enterprise comes back from the dead ("S.T. III: The Search for Spock"; "S.T. VII: Generations"), or a fate worse than death ("S.T. VIII: First Contact").
Kirk didn't die when he got sucked out of the ship you numbnuts. He just dropped some acid with Whoopi for a century or so. And nobody in Contact who was Borgified was rescued (a couple of patches of skin do not a Borg make).
The crew of the Enterprise goes back to an earlier century on Earth, to make sure that history happens as it should ("S.T. IV: The Voyage Home"; "S.T. VIII: First Contact").
In Voyage they went back in time to bring back some whales to save the present, not to keep the past from changing.
A spacecraft threatens to destroy Earth, and we're to blame, either because our technology is more advanced than our ethics ("S.T.: The Motion Picture") or because we've trashed other species ("S.T. IV: The Voyage Home").
He has a small point there, but that's two out of ten movies. Not like that other huge sci-fi franchise, where a small fighter causes a chain reaction that blows up a huge battlestation in 3 out of 6 movies.
That's the ticket: If someone discovers something that interferes with your preconceived notions, there must be an error, bias, or malice.
I saw a story about a study that supposedly showed that periphreal vision was greatly reduced while using a cell phone, because people tend to look straight ahead and not side to side. Except their method of gathering evidence was to put a big vizor on the head of the driver with little cameras that recorded eye movements. It didn't really prove anything, because what if the drivers vision is reduced because he's wearing this big frikkin thing with cameras on his head?
Derailing a train with a car? How did he manage that, did he fill it with depleted uranium? I would think a train hitting a car would be like hitting an empty beer can with a car.
My main point should have been this: when you're designing a standard, why not go with the best format with the longest track record? Why not go with apt-get which has been around for what, 4+ years now, instead of one thats cropped up in the last year and isn't as proven?
The only problems I've had with Debian was when I was running unstable. Under Redhat I ran into dependancy hell when only trying to install....sorry you need libz which needs libx.2, but libx.2 confilcts with packages a, b and c which need libx.1, and so on......
The apt groupies can't get it into their pointed heads that apt can work just fine with rpms.
What RPM goupies can't get into their pointed heads is that you can slap on an apt-like system onto RPM but that wont fix RPM's interdependancy problems. Its silly to think that just by slapping on another layer of package management that it will be "just as good" as a system that has been designed from the ground up not to have those problems, like Debians.
It's like if Microsoft and Apple just hacked multitasking and protected memory on top of the old MacOS and Win9x and claimed it was "just as good" as a unix kernel. Sheesh.