The problem with the second season of ST:TNG, is
it was a casualty of the hollywood writers strike.
This is something that almost happened recently, but as far as I know, was averted.
For the second season of ST:TNG, old scripts for
Star Trek II were hastily edited for current characters, and used.
First Season ended with a helluva cliffhanger, "Conspiracy". Ok - maybe not the last episode of the season, but one never followed up on at all.
The horrific "Troi's Baby" episode was lifted right from Star Trek II - makes me glad STII never saw the light of day.
And what happens when these page output altering software takes the next logical step - and purposely
alters the output of something like Google?
Then when you search on certain items,
they can have their links show up on the first page of returned results.
Something to think about...
I agree with the subject - but not the reasoning.
I have noticed that ever since Quake came out,
adventure / RPG games have been taking a real beating.
And Flight simulators - I can't forget about those.
What is a common element of the dying genre's?
Thinking.
(don't believe there was alot of thinking involved in flight sims?
Ask people who used to play Airwarrior in the early 90s
how much they read on the subject)
Brainless and FPS are pretty much interchangeable these days.
PLOT used to matter before Quake, and in Quake III, they
threw it out completely w/out even trying to pass
off a typical lame FPS plot.
And before anyone mentions Half-Life - yes, I'm
a big fan of Half-Life in single player mode, but have
any FPS games attempted to seriously match it in the past 3 years?
As for RPG games - I'm well aware of what Bioware
is putting out - but who else?
The only thing Quake has revolutionized is the accelleration
of the diminishment of the typical gamers attention span.
It actually would have surprised me if Microsoft (or any company that relies on income from computer using customers) had found that computers ARE retarding childrens intellectual growth.
Somehow - I think that no matter what they found - this conclusion was pre-ordained.
If children are actually really reading more (more than what? More than kids did when I was their age?) I'll only believe it when I see it.
Car advertisements which show kids with their eyes glazed over, watching built in tv/vcrs does not bode well.
Now - if car makers were installing more reading lights for kids who like to read during long trips,
then I'd be more likely to agree.
I'd like to see a company that does not have a vested interest in books OR computer generated revenues conduct the same survey.
Re:"Your 802.11 Wireless Network has No Clothes"
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It almost sounds like Lucent's answer is simply disallowing association via the "broadcast ssid" or the "null ssid". This is no really big deal.
Cisco/Aironet access points also have this option to disallow access via the broadcast ssid, with one important difference:
When broadcast ssid is disallowed, the ssid is NOT transmitted in the beacons, which makes associating to those AP's more difficult. (The ssid field in the beacon is nulled out)
Also, as far as I know, Cisco/Aironet does not recommend the usage of shared key authentication, but gives the user the option....
The pace is ridiculously slow, with a lot of repetition and really long boring space scenes.
While I'm sure the effects (look! people sitting upside-down!) were spectacular in their day,
to a contemporary viewer such as myself they register as a big fat so-what.
Well, as someone who was NOT raised on MTV and other media targeted at folks with 5 minute attention spans, (I'm 37) I have to disagree the opinion that is was ridiculously slow.
(not meant as a jab at you)
I felt the space scenes were very well done and showed the space craft's landing in a realistic fashion.
Inertia is not something you bleed off in a split second - not if you want to keep your passengers alive.
The design of having the docking bay on the space station NOT spinning counter to the rotation
and forcing the shuttle to spin instead - was just the result of the application of good ol' K.I.S.S.
They don't have to worry about the energy costs to keep the docking bay rotating - or any maintenance on the mechanicals involved.
True - it was not all action adventure and lots of bodies and blood everywhere (and requisite bouncing bimbos) but then it never pretended to be.
I must say I am glad I am not a contemporary viewer, considering the amount of garbage on nowadays aimed at that audience.
Does this mean that if 47% of the popular vote was for Bush and 40% was for Gore (13% for everyone else) that Bush would receive 47% of the state's electoral votes - or ALL of them?
I don't know - which is why I am asking - but if the answer is "ALL" something is very wrong...
Cisco is always hiring - and we have a large
population of *nix geeks - Linux is very popular
internally and of course there are tons of sun boxes...
Re:Speaking of D&D, remember the cartoon?
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It's on FoxKids - the openning has been redone w/out the intro narrative, be sure to check local listings for times. In Akron,OH it's on Tu-We-Th at 6am...
I heartily agree with this comment - especially after recently watching "Kull the Conqueror".
"Kull" as alot of folks know is a character created by Robert E. Howard - who afterwards created the more well known "Conan".
"Conan the Barbarian" had an awesome sound track with music that fits the timeperiod - "Kull the Conqueror" on the otherhand had a modern day rock-n-roll type of music that was completely out of place and distracting.
so Mandrake jumps to 7 and slackware jumps from 3 to 7....why not???
A little more research would show numerous 3.xx releases of Slack and a 4.0 release prior to the 7.0 one. But then it's always easier to insult the distro you don't use...
Unless they don't watch television at all, anyone who says that is just plain wrong.
And what sort of research have you conducted to prove this statement of yours? I for one don't find my self drawn out to grocery stores intent on buying cases of "Sunny Delight" after being subjected to their inane commercials.
Nor do I use any of the equally inane 10-10 long distance dialing services. And how many people are now making alot more collect calls thanks to the plethora of adverts for them? I'd be amazed if people changed their dialing habits based on some stupid commercial.
I agree that it would be nice to have the speeding idiots take themselves out of the gene pool - but all to often it's the people in the other car they hit/cutoff that pay the price. There never seems to be a convenient Semi around when you need one...
People will be upset since they feel they have the right to be stupid - and they do - as long they themselves are the only victims of their stupidity.
Did you bother reading any reviews or see any of the previews before hand? I did - and I don't recall any of them even hinting about "biting sarcasm about the entire sci-fi genre".
I believe you are making the quite common misconception that WEB == INTERNET.
This is not true - the internet was around before the web - along with email and usenet - which were probably more important to the development of Linux.
All Tim did was make the internet more accessible to more people...
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The problem with the second season of ST:TNG, is
it was a casualty of the hollywood writers strike.
This is something that almost happened recently, but as far as I know, was averted.
For the second season of ST:TNG, old scripts for
Star Trek II were hastily edited for current characters, and used.
First Season ended with a helluva cliffhanger, "Conspiracy". Ok - maybe not the last episode of the season, but one never followed up on at all.
The horrific "Troi's Baby" episode was lifted right from Star Trek II - makes me glad STII never saw the light of day.
And what happens when these page output altering software takes the next logical step - and purposely
alters the output of something like Google?
Then when you search on certain items,
they can have their links show up on the first page of returned results.
Something to think about...
they can detain you without any real reason,but they can only do it for so long.
Tell that to Kevin Mitnick.
I agree with the subject - but not the reasoning.
I have noticed that ever since Quake came out,
adventure / RPG games have been taking a real beating.
And Flight simulators - I can't forget about those.
What is a common element of the dying genre's?
Thinking.
(don't believe there was alot of thinking involved in flight sims?
Ask people who used to play Airwarrior in the early 90s
how much they read on the subject)
Brainless and FPS are pretty much interchangeable these days.
PLOT used to matter before Quake, and in Quake III, they
threw it out completely w/out even trying to pass
off a typical lame FPS plot.
And before anyone mentions Half-Life - yes, I'm
a big fan of Half-Life in single player mode, but have
any FPS games attempted to seriously match it in the past 3 years?
As for RPG games - I'm well aware of what Bioware
is putting out - but who else?
The only thing Quake has revolutionized is the accelleration
of the diminishment of the typical gamers attention span.
It actually would have surprised me if Microsoft (or any company that relies on income from computer using customers) had found that computers ARE retarding childrens intellectual growth.
Somehow - I think that no matter what they found - this conclusion was pre-ordained.
If children are actually really reading more (more than what? More than kids did when I was their age?) I'll only believe it when I see it.
Car advertisements which show kids with their eyes glazed over, watching built in tv/vcrs does not bode well.
Now - if car makers were installing more reading lights for kids who like to read during long trips,
then I'd be more likely to agree.
I'd like to see a company that does not have a vested interest in books OR computer generated revenues conduct the same survey.
It almost sounds like Lucent's answer is simply disallowing association via the "broadcast ssid" or the "null ssid". This is no really big deal.
Cisco/Aironet access points also have this option to disallow access via the broadcast ssid, with one important difference:
When broadcast ssid is disallowed, the ssid is NOT transmitted in the beacons, which makes associating to those AP's more difficult. (The ssid field in the beacon is nulled out)
Also, as far as I know, Cisco/Aironet does not recommend the usage of shared key authentication, but gives the user the option....
Disclaimer: I work for Cisco/Aironet
2001-03-09 08:00:00
;-)
139 years ago that day, you didn't want to be
onboard a wooden ship
While I'm sure the effects (look! people sitting upside-down!) were spectacular in their day,
to a contemporary viewer such as myself they register as a big fat so-what.
Well, as someone who was NOT raised on MTV and other media targeted at folks with 5 minute attention spans, (I'm 37) I have to disagree the opinion that is was ridiculously slow.
(not meant as a jab at you)
I felt the space scenes were very well done and showed the space craft's landing in a realistic fashion.
Inertia is not something you bleed off in a split second - not if you want to keep your passengers alive.
The design of having the docking bay on the space station NOT spinning counter to the rotation
and forcing the shuttle to spin instead - was just the result of the application of good ol' K.I.S.S.
They don't have to worry about the energy costs to keep the docking bay rotating - or any maintenance on the mechanicals involved.
True - it was not all action adventure and lots of bodies and blood everywhere (and requisite bouncing bimbos) but then it never pretended to be.
I must say I am glad I am not a contemporary viewer, considering the amount of garbage on nowadays aimed at that audience.
Does this mean that if 47% of the popular vote was for Bush and
40% was for Gore (13% for everyone else) that Bush would receive
47% of the state's electoral votes - or ALL of them?
I don't know - which is why I am asking - but if the answer is "ALL" something is very wrong...
Cisco is always hiring - and we have a large
population of *nix geeks - Linux is very popular
internally and of course there are tons of sun boxes...
It's on FoxKids - the openning has been redone w/out the intro narrative, be sure to check local listings for times.
In Akron,OH it's on Tu-We-Th at 6am...
How about "Manos - The Hands of Fate"?
I believe that is the title - luckily I saw it on MST3K so I didn't suffer total brain damage...
It is a pain trying to log onto IRC because identd does not get through.
Check out this ident proxy.
I use it on my firewall/nat machine and it works great to allow irc connections from masq'd machines...
PKARC FAST! Archive Create/Update Utility Version 3.5 04-27-87
Copyright (c) 1986,1987 PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved. PKARC/h for help
I'm sure a little searching would turn it up on oak.oakland.edu...
I heartily agree with this comment - especially after recently watching "Kull the Conqueror".
"Kull" as alot of folks know is a character created by Robert E. Howard - who afterwards created the more well known "Conan".
"Conan the Barbarian" had an awesome sound track with music that fits the timeperiod - "Kull the Conqueror" on the otherhand had a modern day rock-n-roll type of music that was completely out of place and distracting.
so Mandrake jumps to 7 and slackware jumps from 3 to 7....why not???
A little more research would show numerous 3.xx releases of Slack and a 4.0 release prior to the 7.0 one. But then it's always easier to insult the distro you don't use...
Unless they don't watch television at all, anyone who says that is just plain wrong.
And what sort of research have you conducted to prove this statement of yours? I for one don't find my self drawn out to grocery stores intent on buying cases of "Sunny Delight" after being subjected to their inane commercials.
Nor do I use any of the equally inane 10-10 long distance dialing services. And how many people are now making alot more collect calls thanks to the plethora of adverts for them? I'd be amazed if people changed their dialing habits based on some stupid commercial.
Among readers of MAD, I have no doubt that Don Martin will be missed.
Snicker - Readers of MAD have missed him for 12 years since he left MAD for Cracked in 1987...
Has it occurred to you that a major difference between now and 1977 is that VCR's (actually most were VTR's) were insanely expensive?
How many people do you know who had a VCR before 1980?
I agree that it would be nice to have the speeding idiots take themselves out of the gene pool - but all to often it's the people in the other car they hit/cutoff that pay the price. There never seems to be a convenient Semi around when you need one...
People will be upset since they feel they have the right to be stupid - and they do - as long they themselves are the only victims of their stupidity.
So by your reasoning 12/31/0009 is the end of the
first decade which started with 1/1/0001.
Now who needs help with their counting?
Did you bother reading any reviews or see any of the previews before hand? I did - and I don't recall any of them even hinting about "biting sarcasm about the entire sci-fi genre".
I dunno - whenever I read about "Retinal Painting Displays" I am reminded of the episode of
Star Trek (tm) The Next Generation (tm) "The Game"
It's bad enough people drive now while gabbing on a cell phone...
I believe you are making the quite common misconception that WEB == INTERNET.
This is not true - the internet was around before the web - along with email and usenet - which
were probably more important to the development of Linux.
All Tim did was make the internet more accessible to more people...
More importantly - why is this " News for Nerds "?
Since it most certainly is not " Stuff that Matters "...