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  1. Re:Battlestar Galactica on Star Wars Television Series Moving Forward · · Score: 1

    Battlestar Galactica has proven that it's possible to create cinema-quality special effects and atmosphere on a TV show budget these days.

    Babylon 5, more accurately, had proven that it's possible to create cinema-quality special effects and atmosphere on a TV show budget long before the current Battlestar Galactica.
  2. Timelords on Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Announced · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bah! Just play Timelords by BTRC instead.

  3. Re:Portability on Google Purchases GrandCentral Web Phone Service · · Score: 1

    Well, yes, if it is a 30 minute wait, then great. My previous experiences were not nearly as "clean".

    As far as prepaid plans, I think T-Mobile has the best for what I want.

  4. Re:Portability on Google Purchases GrandCentral Web Phone Service · · Score: 1

    Yes, yes, yes...I'm well aware of that.

    And while you can do it, is generally a P.I.T.A.

    Thusly, I'd rather avoid that annoyance.

    Now, what would be better, is if I could port my existing number to Grand Central...then I'd only have to do it ONCE. (I've already suggested this idea to them.)

  5. Re:Recursion pays... on Google Purchases GrandCentral Web Phone Service · · Score: 1

    I've often wondered the same thing using two Gmail accounts.

    How soon would it fill up both accounts?

  6. Money for Nothin' on Google Purchases GrandCentral Web Phone Service · · Score: 1

    Excellent...now I can reap the profits from selling Grand Central invites on eBay!!!

  7. Mixed Feelings on Google Purchases GrandCentral Web Phone Service · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've had a GrandC entral number for a while now. I set it up with the plan that, I could finally get rid of my AT&T cellur phone and go pre-paid, but not be tied to any one company.

    I haven't yet done that, but I have been using the GrandCentral number for more of my business use. I think it works well and I haven't been using the verous special features, such as "ListenIn".

    I think what held me back from making the final switch-over to the new number was concern about the viability of Grand Central long term. Well, I think the Google acquisition solves that problem. Google isn't going away anytime soon.

    So, I guess, in the end I'm please they were acquired. The funny thing was I was on the site earlier yesterday to get a number set up for my wife, but didn't do it. Now, I'll have to send myself an invite to set up that other number. Oh well...

  8. Ummm...Furman Strip? on Space Station Computers Partially Restored · · Score: 1

    Haven't they heard of an power conditioner or UPS?

    Seriously, I'll offer to buy them a Furman Strip out of my own pocket. Hell, I'll buy them two.

  9. Re:Lava Tube on Massive Cave Found on Mars · · Score: 1

    Given the fact that it's on the side of a volcano, and the fact that it's in the middle of a lava field, the most likely answer is that it opens into a lava tube. Most likely a small meteorite hit the center of the circle and caused a circular fracture that fell into the underlying tube. Right...or more likely it is a giant worm tube.
  10. Clearly a job for Haliburton! on Massive Cave Found on Mars · · Score: 1

    That's no cave! That's a giant puddle of oil.

    Clearly a result of Mars' former lush watery vegetative past.

    Seriously, what if that were oil? There'd be a Mars expedition program the likes of which we've not yet seen. It would make the Apollo moon program look like Cub Pack 13's model rocketry club.

  11. Re:Purity on Massive Cave Found on Mars · · Score: 1

    That's no cave! It a giant pool of Purity. Send one of the rovers to it and see if it slithers towards them. It'll likely annoounce itself as Armus.

  12. Re:Why haven't *we* been colonized? Re: kill the a on Extrasolar Planet Could Harbor Life · · Score: 1

    Based on our very short and limited examples here on Earth, militant civilizations seem to have a notoriously short lifespan.

  13. Can You Hear Me Now? on Extrasolar Planet Could Harbor Life · · Score: 1

    As part of the SETI Institute's Project Phoenix, we twice aimed large antennas in the direction of Gliese 581, hoping to pick up a signal that would bespeak technology ... Neither search turned up a signal. If only they were using Verizon for wireless communications, we'd be hearing them now.
  14. Frack! on Final Season of Battlestar Galactica Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Frack! Frack! Frack!

  15. Excellent...AmigaOS on Dell to Sell Machines with Ubuntu Pre-Loaded · · Score: 1

    Now we can focus on getting them to pre-install the AmigaOS.

    Then after that, OS/2 Warp!!!

  16. Upgrades for existing? on Palm to go Linux · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but will I be able to install this as an upgrade to my Palm TX???

  17. Vonage Receives Temporary Stay In Verizon Patent L on The End for Vonage? · · Score: 1

    Vonage Receives Temporary Stay In Verizon Patent Litigation, Continues to Sell Service

    HOLMDEL, N.J., April 6, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Vonage today secured a temporary stay from U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC. The stay enables Vonage to continue to sign up new customers until the Appellate court can hear Vonage's request for a permanent stay. The Court's ruling allows Vonage to continue to provide phone service to existing customers.

    Earlier today the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va. indicated it would enter an injunction against Vonage effective April 12, 2007 in connection with certain Verizon technology on which it was found to be infringing. The Court indicated that Vonage would be barred from acquiring new customers during its appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. In response, Vonage filed for and received an emergency stay of the injunction from the Federal Circuit.

    About Vonage

    Vonage (NYSE: VG) is a leading provider of broadband telephone services with over 2.2 million subscriber lines. Our award-winning technology enables anyone to make and receive phone calls with a touch tone telephone almost anywhere a broadband Internet connection is available. We offer feature-rich and cost-effective communication services that offer users an experience similar to traditional telephone services.

    Our Residential Premium Unlimited and Small Business Unlimited calling plans offer consumers unlimited local and long distance calling, and popular features like call waiting, call forwarding and voicemail -- for one low, flat monthly rate. Vonage's service is sold on the web and through national retailers including Best Buy, Circuit City, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target and is available to customers in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom. For more information about Vonage's products and services, please visit http://www.vonage.com./

    Vonage Holdings Corp. is headquartered in Holmdel, New Jersey. Vonage(tm) is a registered trademark of Vonage Marketing Inc., a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp.

    Vg-f

    SOURCE Vonage

    Brooke Schulz of Vonage, +1-732-528-2627, brooke.schulz@vonage.com; or Nick Kalm of
    Reputation Partners, +1-312-222- 9888, nick@reputationpartners.com

    http://www.vonage.com/

  18. Simple on Cassini Probes the Hexagon On Saturn · · Score: 1

    It is a giant ice crystal.

    Largest snowflake ev'ah....

  19. $14.95 till Feb, 2007 on Skype's Free Phone Call Plan Will Soon Have Annual Fee · · Score: 1

    Then it jumps to $30.

  20. Re:Awesome on Liquid Terror Charges Dropped · · Score: 1

    Heh. You think the Zip Loc Bag Lobby is going allow congress to let that happen!

    HAH!

    They're making a killing.

  21. They are all crap after 2 blades... on Moore's Law For Razor Blades? · · Score: 1

    Heck, you really only need one. Wish I had the inclination to learn to use a straight razor.

    In any case, The Gillette Sensor--a two blade mode--was and remains the best disposable blade razor produced. Unfortunately, you can't get them anymore because everyone has to have more and more blades. I just got some fancy Schick something or other in the mail, for free to try it, and it was crap.

  22. Return of the Thin Client? on Google's New Calendar CL2 · · Score: 1

    Gmail
    Gdrive
    Gcalendar
    Gdesktop
    Gword (word processor)
    Gsheet (spreadsheet)
    Gbase
    Gthis
    Gthat

    Brings us to the online version of the majorty of business and home desktops. Only now online and available wherever you are.

    Scary Cool!

  23. Spoooooon1! on New "Hairy Lobster" Crustacean Discovered and Classified · · Score: 1

    Looks like a giant albino underwater tick with hairy claws.

  24. Science kills religion... on New Budget NASA Space Science Missions · · Score: 1

    ...or so the Radical Religious Right( aka R3) would have you believe.

    Of course they want to force out funding for extraterrestrial life sicences and searched. This would shatter their belief nuch like the concept that the Earth revolved around the sun.

  25. Yet more junk... on Golf in Space · · Score: 1

    ...in orbit. What BS.