I've been a Trek fan for over 25 years. I do love the TV shows but the movies are lacking. I think we've all had enough of Enterprise being 'the only ship that can save/defeat/whatever whoever.
The focus needs to change. What I would like to see for the next movie is an in-depth account of the final battle with the Dominion. They could show the leadup and the actual battle from all sides (Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Cardasian, etc.).
Get away from the plodding one-on-one battles and do a full engagement.
Every time I see a 'new concept' car, there is one thing missing from all the hoopla: the economic research of the fuel.
Ford says they're talking to BP about mass producing hydrogen. This is only one company. Why aren't they talking to others? Not to mention once they figure it all out either oil companies will retain their monopoly over car fuel just by changing their product or a few companies suddenly get the monopoly thru inovation and the patent office (don't think that BP won't try to stop anybody and everybody from refining hydrogen once THEY get their ideas going)
Oil companies have been keeping highly inefficient 'dino-fuel' engines around alot longer then should have because they didn't want to give up ANY of their 'pie'. Oil companies will be happy to give up gasoline power now ONLY if they can have the exclusive rights to supplying the new fuel (whatever it turns out to be).
In 50s(?) there was a guy who invented a carburetor(sp?) that could get 50 miles/gallon. An oil company bought all the research & rights from him and destroyed it. Keep the money rolling in and to hell with the enviroment.
These are not the people we want having anything to do with alternative fuel vehicles.
Before car companies start putting in all the happy fuzzy options, widely accessable fuel that doesn't need manufacturing should be found. Otherwise we'll wind up with the same problem: innovation and invention controlled by companies that only have their profits & monopolies in mind and nothing else.
Vancouver British Columbia: within 7 years we've had a second area code (one for Vancouver and it's suburbs (604)and one for the rest of the province (250)), 10 digit dialing (don't have to enter the 1) and just implemented a third area code for Vancouver & the suburbs (604 & 778).
When thr first 2 came into play, there was a recording that would play if you forgot to put the area code while dialing. The tone of the recording was very close to a parent displining a child for a repeated mistake! I believe it was changed after a local radio station (famed for doing musical parodies) got into the act!
(The song might still be around. For those interested check out the Rock101 (CFMI) website)
I doubt this thing gets the 'users' authorization for sending infomation therefore any info obtained is considered non-admissable in court.
Correct me if I'm wrong but since the RIAA has admitted to infecting the general populace(sp?), aren't they guilty of malicious coding and liable for any damage incurred? (don't think there's an end-user agreement for a worm...)
Seems that every major business that deals with legal battles does it the same way: tie it up in procedure and red tape until the plaintiff either runs out of money or looses interest.
Thing is, this is MS' response to the demonstration. Does this include questions refering to the operation of the scaled-down version? If not, give to 50 people & then call them as 'character' witnesses
From what little I know of Linux (I will be going over after 20+ years with Microsoft) it's rather hard to break security or get a virus to do anything. I understand it depends on the 'state' of Linux at the time (who's logged in, etc).
I would rather run Linux with more security holes than Windows if those holes are hard to find and even harder to exploit.
'A charging bull will fly thru an open door but won't get very far going thru a cheese grater.'
We used to have Rogers here but due to them using negative billing, hiking fees for poor service and generally being the epitome of a lifeless, bloodless corporation (no, I'm not bitter...) the general public forced them out.
To those affected I say organize a rally, call the papers, submit letters to the editors, hit every public news broadcast you can and let them know how you feel.
It worked on the West Coast, no reason it shouldn't on the East!
After hearing all of you b*tching about viruses and worms and the people who make them, I have one solution for you all:
Switch to Linux or Unix. From what I can remember, only 2-3 virus/worms have been made for these operating systems and even then they didn't do any real damage. Why? Because the people who created Unix/Linux where driven by good programming, not the all mighty dollar.
You're saying that DS9's themes and sub-plots were better than Babylon 5's?
Also, you missed the point - This wasn't an original Star Trek idea. Plagiarism is the biggest form of flattery but also the perfect example of a lack of creative thinking...
What was good about DS9? It was, is and always will be one of the worst Star Trek series because of two things:
1. It wasn't an orginial Star Trek idea. Paramount's execs saw Babylon 5 when when all the new shows were shopping themselves around to the networks for the fall schedule.THEY decided that was when they wanted the next Start Trek series to be.
2. Way, way, way too much religious junk! At least with Babylon 5 it was different religoins. With DS9 it was always Bagoran this, Bagoran that. It has to be something like 50% of the episodes have some sort of Bagoran religious crisis or something dug out of the Cardasian occupation.
This is the only Star Trek series that had heavy soap-opera type storylines.
Before I sign off, I will say that there are a few good DS9 episodes. The one where Sisko leads the life of a black story writer in the 40s and the one when Morn fakes his death comed to mind as some memorable episodes. But considering how many episodes there are and those are the only two I can think of kinda prooves my point...
In British Columbia (as well as other areas, I'm sure)if a theif slips on some ice while breaking into your home, he can sue for damages. In the 80's a theif successfully sued a car owner for putting razor blades on his car stereo and caused the theif to loose 2 fingers.
Blowing up your speakers (which couls also do damage to whatever they're hooked up to) as well as inconvienence, trama (from the 'explosion), public embarasment (if it happens while you're hosting a party or blowing someone else's system if you lend the CD to someone)could equal a very large and nasty lawsuit.
If you can sue for your coffee being too hot, why not go for the gusto?
One thing I think RTS games should take into account is the effect of the battles & battle stratagies that are used. For example:
In Command & Conquer, to avoid getting your base bombed during the missions you would station one unit to the upper left of your base. The AI would always attackt the upper-left most unit. Good stratagy to avoid damage but if you take into account that after a few times your units would be shaking in their boots after each bombing run wondering if they were next!! This (of course) leads to breakdown of morale and possibly defections.
I noticed in Tiberian Sun that units gain 'rank' as they survive battles (betters shots, sight, etc). It could work that the higher the rank, the more hardened the veteran.
HOWEVER,
If we are taking about a fantasy/space style RTS, use the race. In Warcraft, the Orc grunts and other low level units are rather dim so throwing 10-20 of them at a line of archers as a suicide divertion wouldn't really effect the overall morale of the pack.
I think just putting this to work in any RTS would create some really good stratagy gaming.
Why would up waste your time downloading a movie that's already in video stores, has a time limit on viewing and will eventually corrupt itself (hopefully just itself!) when you can download a movie that just been released to theaters and usually is less that 500Mb?
True the quality sometimes sucks but there are screener copies that float around (those are usually the first ones on the trading block)
I've had WinMx for about 3 weeks now. I have about 20 movies ranging from older ones like Men in Black (ripped from the DVD) up to Final Fantasy, Planet of the Apes & Osmosis Jones. The last three i got about 2 days after being released to theaters!
I know alot of people will say "WinMx will eventually go the way of Napster and either start charging or will be taken out entirely." I went from Napster to Imesh to BearShare to WinMx. Th last three handled all file types (music, movies, programs).
I've been a tech for 22+ years and it's the same thing over and over again: push down on one hacker/cracker/copywrite violator and 5 more pop up. I guess eventually the RIAA and movie industry will understand that they lost the war before they noticed they were in one.
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Most EULAs are a joke at times. Looking at the one for the software company I work states:
A full refund will be granted upon return of the complete UNOPENED software package.
Note to legal dept: They have to OPEN the package to read this guys!!
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I've been a Trek fan for over 25 years. I do love the TV shows but the movies are lacking. I think we've all had enough of Enterprise being 'the only ship that can save/defeat/whatever whoever.
The focus needs to change. What I would like to see for the next movie is an in-depth account of the final battle with the Dominion. They could show the leadup and the actual battle from all sides (Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Cardasian, etc.).
Get away from the plodding one-on-one battles and do a full engagement.
Every time I see a 'new concept' car, there is one thing missing from all the hoopla: the economic research of the fuel.
Ford says they're talking to BP about mass producing hydrogen. This is only one company. Why aren't they talking to others? Not to mention once they figure it all out either oil companies will retain their monopoly over car fuel just by changing their product or a few companies suddenly get the monopoly thru inovation and the patent office (don't think that BP won't try to stop anybody and everybody from refining hydrogen once THEY get their ideas going)
Oil companies have been keeping highly inefficient 'dino-fuel' engines around alot longer then should have because they didn't want to give up ANY of their 'pie'. Oil companies will be happy to give up gasoline power now ONLY if they can have the exclusive rights to supplying the new fuel (whatever it turns out to be).
In 50s(?) there was a guy who invented a carburetor(sp?) that could get 50 miles/gallon. An oil company bought all the research & rights from him and destroyed it. Keep the money rolling in and to hell with the enviroment.
These are not the people we want having anything to do with alternative fuel vehicles.
Before car companies start putting in all the happy fuzzy options, widely accessable fuel that doesn't need manufacturing should be found. Otherwise we'll wind up with the same problem: innovation and invention controlled by companies that only have their profits & monopolies in mind and nothing else.
Vancouver British Columbia: within 7 years we've had a second area code (one for Vancouver and it's suburbs (604)and one for the rest of the province (250)), 10 digit dialing (don't have to enter the 1) and just implemented a third area code for Vancouver & the suburbs (604 & 778).
When thr first 2 came into play, there was a recording that would play if you forgot to put the area code while dialing. The tone of the recording was very close to a parent displining a child for a repeated mistake! I believe it was changed after a local radio station (famed for doing musical parodies) got into the act!
(The song might still be around. For those interested check out the Rock101 (CFMI) website)
But this concerns just US copyright laws correct? Does this involve international copyrights? If not, does it have any power outside US?
I doubt this thing gets the 'users' authorization for sending infomation therefore any info obtained is considered non-admissable in court.
Correct me if I'm wrong but since the RIAA has admitted to infecting the general populace(sp?), aren't they guilty of malicious coding and liable for any damage incurred? (don't think there's an end-user agreement for a worm...)
AotC - 166.3/4days
Spiderman - 286.5/21 days (3 weeks)
Note to original editor: either report how much Spiderman made in 4 days or piss off until AotC has been out for 21 days.
I can't believe this brainless f*ck's editor let this article go out while it was making as much sense Bills Clinton's sexual harassment defence.
Seems that every major business that deals with legal battles does it the same way: tie it up in procedure and red tape until the plaintiff either runs out of money or looses interest.
Thing is, this is MS' response to the demonstration. Does this include questions refering to the operation of the scaled-down version? If not, give to 50 people & then call them as 'character' witnesses
Either your brains are up your ass or your IQ is the same as your score (5). You want prior art or obviousness?
Go to your local playground (if you haven't been banned from having contact with children) and take a look at what goes on for the day!
With stupid patents like this (and the inevitable lawsuits that will follow) the US should stagnate or destroy their economy in a few decades.
'Fall of the Roman Empire, 21 century style'
What do the numbers really represent?
From what little I know of Linux (I will be going over after 20+ years with Microsoft) it's rather hard to break security or get a virus to do anything. I understand it depends on the 'state' of Linux at the time (who's logged in, etc).
I would rather run Linux with more security holes than Windows if those holes are hard to find and even harder to exploit.
'A charging bull will fly thru an open door but won't get very far going thru a cheese grater.'
We used to have Rogers here but due to them using negative billing, hiking fees for poor service and generally being the epitome of a lifeless, bloodless corporation (no, I'm not bitter...) the general public forced them out.
To those affected I say organize a rally, call the papers, submit letters to the editors, hit every public news broadcast you can and let them know how you feel.
It worked on the West Coast, no reason it shouldn't on the East!
After hearing all of you b*tching about viruses and worms and the people who make them, I have one solution for you all:
Switch to Linux or Unix. From what I can remember, only 2-3 virus/worms have been made for these operating systems and even then they didn't do any real damage. Why? Because the people who created Unix/Linux where driven by good programming, not the all mighty dollar.
You're saying that DS9's themes and sub-plots were better than Babylon 5's?
Also, you missed the point - This wasn't an original Star Trek idea. Plagiarism is the biggest form of flattery but also the perfect example of a lack of creative thinking...
What was good about DS9? It was, is and always will be one of the worst Star Trek series because of two things:
1. It wasn't an orginial Star Trek idea. Paramount's execs saw Babylon 5 when when all the new shows were shopping themselves around to the networks for the fall schedule.THEY decided that was when they wanted the next Start Trek series to be.
2. Way, way, way too much religious junk! At least with Babylon 5 it was different religoins. With DS9 it was always Bagoran this, Bagoran that. It has to be something like 50% of the episodes have some sort of Bagoran religious crisis or something dug out of the Cardasian occupation.
This is the only Star Trek series that had heavy soap-opera type storylines.
Before I sign off, I will say that there are a few good DS9 episodes. The one where Sisko leads the life of a black story writer in the 40s and the one when Morn fakes his death comed to mind as some memorable episodes. But considering how many episodes there are and those are the only two I can think of kinda prooves my point...
Interesting, but that's based on logic and if there's one things Adams showed us it's that logic is worth a pair of fetted dingo's kidneys.
The question *IMHO)is more like - "How many quantum desions are we off of an utopian society?"
In British Columbia (as well as other areas, I'm sure)if a theif slips on some ice while breaking into your home, he can sue for damages. In the 80's a theif successfully sued a car owner for putting razor blades on his car stereo and caused the theif to loose 2 fingers.
Blowing up your speakers (which couls also do damage to whatever they're hooked up to) as well as inconvienence, trama (from the 'explosion), public embarasment (if it happens while you're hosting a party or blowing someone else's system if you lend the CD to someone)could equal a very large and nasty lawsuit.
If you can sue for your coffee being too hot, why not go for the gusto?
One thing I think RTS games should take into account is the effect of the battles & battle stratagies that are used. For example:
In Command & Conquer, to avoid getting your base bombed during the missions you would station one unit to the upper left of your base. The AI would always attackt the upper-left most unit. Good stratagy to avoid damage but if you take into account that after a few times your units would be shaking in their boots after each bombing run wondering if they were next!! This (of course) leads to breakdown of morale and possibly defections.
I noticed in Tiberian Sun that units gain 'rank' as they survive battles (betters shots, sight, etc). It could work that the higher the rank, the more hardened the veteran.
HOWEVER,
If we are taking about a fantasy/space style RTS, use the race. In Warcraft, the Orc grunts and other low level units are rather dim so throwing 10-20 of them at a line of archers as a suicide divertion wouldn't really effect the overall morale of the pack.
I think just putting this to work in any RTS would create some really good stratagy gaming.
Anybody heard of WinMX or other deriviatives?
Why would up waste your time downloading a movie that's already in video stores, has a time limit on viewing and will eventually corrupt itself (hopefully just itself!) when you can download a movie that just been released to theaters and usually is less that 500Mb?
True the quality sometimes sucks but there are screener copies that float around (those are usually the first ones on the trading block)
I've had WinMx for about 3 weeks now. I have about 20 movies ranging from older ones like Men in Black (ripped from the DVD) up to Final Fantasy, Planet of the Apes & Osmosis Jones. The last three i got about 2 days after being released to theaters!
I know alot of people will say "WinMx will eventually go the way of Napster and either start charging or will be taken out entirely." I went from Napster to Imesh to BearShare to WinMx. Th last three handled all file types (music, movies, programs).
I've been a tech for 22+ years and it's the same thing over and over again: push down on one hacker/cracker/copywrite violator and 5 more pop up. I guess eventually the RIAA and movie industry will understand that they lost the war before they noticed they were in one.
Most EULAs are a joke at times. Looking at the one for the software company I work states: A full refund will be granted upon return of the complete UNOPENED software package. Note to legal dept: They have to OPEN the package to read this guys!!