My favorite trek movies are Wrath of Kahn and First Contact. Why? Because they built on the amazing amount of material already contained within the Star Trek universe. (Why create an enemy when there's so many to choose from.) I can't count the number of things wrong with Nemesis and I find myself amazed that I liked Insurrection better! (Nemesis should've kicked ass.)
The wedding stuff was fruity, nobody goes to a Trek Flick for car chase scenes, not once did the enterprise or it's crew seem to be in danger (Even when it rammed the other ship!), and my mid was throbbing with how much they tried to make this movie like Kahn.
Data died sacrificing himself for everyone, leaving behind a bit of himself in another android. (Sound familiar?) There was a drawn out final battle with lots of close ups that ended with both ships getting totaled and the bad guy blowing himself up with some amazing destructive weapon. (Where did I see that before?) Picard found (something close to) his son. Etc, etc, etc.
I think Star Trek needs a little outsider influence. Let's get Joss Whedon, Sam Raimi, M. Knight Shyamalan or anyone else with some vision!
Tuesday night around 9:00PM EST I saw a fairly large "shooting star", it took a few seconds to cross the sky. I saw it through quite a bit of light pollution too, but I've actually seen a fireball while I was in Badlands National Park a few years back. This was no fireball, but definetly not the norm.
Not as bad as watching the girl from trading spaces getting married on a wedding story. But I made my girlfriend sit through the junkyard wars marathon around thanksgiving, so I can put up with it.
I've got 1.1Mbps SDSL in Detroit. Works beautifully. My install only took 1.5 weeks start to finish. (I've been told this is very unusual.) I had a few problems up front, but Speakeasy credited me for the time I was unhappy. During the day it's almost impossible to get a person on the phone. (At night it's a snap.) The best part of Speakeasy's service is their VERY knowledge tech support staff. I reccomend them to anyone that is in their coverage.
"Quantum Project" is definetly not worth the six dollars.
Here's a summary of the plot: Physicist works at particle accelerator. (Played by Stephen Dorff) He starts to believe he can create his own reality while pursuing an ex-lover. (Played by Fay Masterson, who is a hottie.) Throw in a bunch of cheesy effects, blatant misuse of Quantum Mechanics terminology and some nutty dialog by John Cleese, (Who plays the Physicists father.) you've got this movie.
The only cool thing about "Quantum Project" is that Stephen Dorff and Fay Masterson played opposite each other in one of my favorite movies, "The Power of One". Which I thought was pretty neat.
My opinion, you're much better off taking that six dollars and going to see a matinee showing of "Frequency". The ending was a bit too happy for my tastes, but the plot and character development was amazing. Plus it handles the physics of the situation very eloquently.
My TV has this great feature called TV Guide Plus. It downloads the programming info for every station right over my broadband line. It does the same with an antenna as well. I'd rather not hook my TIVO up to a phone line, so I'll wait till they include that feature to buy one.
The PowerComputing PowerWave (IMHO) is one of the best Macintoshes ever made. My PowerWave 604/150MHz has been running non-stop since the day I brought it home from the Macworld Expo.
Over the years I've upgraded the processor to a 604e/200Mhz, added more memory to the 8 DIMM slots (try and find that in a machine today), replaced the 1.2 GB hard drive (it still works, I just needed more space), and replaced the CD-ROM (the tray motor failed, so I put in a nice 32X).
This was the first machine I purchased with my own money - it had a special place in my heart. When I finally needed a newer computer I didn't want to get rid of my old PowerWave. So I slapped down the bucks and bought a copy of LinuxPPC R4. With that and a second network card my old box shines as web server and firewall for my private network.
I can't wait to upgrade to R5 and I heartily reccomend LinuxPPC to anyone with an older Power Macintosh. (if you've never used Linux before, this is a great way to learn) You've still got a great piece of hardware there, LinuxPPC breathes new life into it!
Hmm, I wonder if I should get one of those of those G3 daughtercards to go with my R5 upgrade?
I think I'll put an "I'm Stupid" sticker on my head for today.
All right, so it's company policy for BellSouth not to install on Linux machines. Is that because Linux isn't listed as a supported system or are they specifically NOT installing on Linux? Interested, I looked through my cable provider's policy today and it actually states something similar. They support Windows9X/NT and MacOS 7.X an up. It doesn't mention Linux directly and it doesn't say they won't install on other types of systems - however, it DOES say that they will only install on supported systems.
So I guess it only matters if you get cable/dsl guy that gives a damn. The guy that set up my service said he didn't care if I hooked it up to a toaster, just as long as I could show him it worked. He said they were required to run a small application that tests connectivity. (If that's all the QA they do, why not just write a Java app that does the same thing?)
On one hand I understand BellSouth's side. If they support Windows/MacOS they cover most of the ground. Once they jump into Linux-land things start to get more expensive. On the other hand there should be some kind of option for service that says, give me the box and go away. Preferably at a discount...
To quote the article, "...Linux users could use the system as long as they configured their own computers."
OK, I'm a long time Mac user and ISPs have been telling me this since before I can remember. Last year I got a cable modem and I was told the same thing about my Mac running LinuxPPC. They wouldn't install anything in a box or configure any software unless in was running Windows or MacOS. Fine by me, the last thing I want is somebody messing with my toys.
I guess my rant is this: Why the hell is this an issue at all? The reason I installed Linux in the first place was so I could learn something new. Installing Linux from scratch and trying to figure out how to get it all to work was really lots of fun. I would never want to have someone take all that fun away from me.
Now I understand the basic point. I deal with it everyday at work. We have a certain system that uses Unix servers and NT clients. When a trouble call comes in for that system the support staff just say, "Server is running fine, must be an NT issue. Call them." When the call is placed to the NT support staff they say, "Well your machine seems to be fine, call the software guys." If no one is willing to take responsibility, you may never get your problem solved.
So basically I can see why people are making a stink. I would be frustrated if I called up my cable provider and all they told me was, "Oh you use Linux? Sorry, we don't support that." But that, my friends is the price we pay for being visionaries. For less than 50 bucks I turned an old PowerMac clone into a web server and a firewall. For that, I'm willing to forgo whatever support is offered with a mainstream OS.
Circumventing the showtimes for bunny are easy. Once you succesfully log in for a show just save the asx redirector or real media file. Then you can show your frineds the movie whenever you like.
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Or use the one that Vonage provides. http://www.vonage.com/help.php?article=497&categor y=102&nav=102
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Thank goodness their posting the episodes online and releasing a DVD later. Because I hate manaually programming my replayTV.
My favorite trek movies are Wrath of Kahn and First Contact. Why? Because they built on the amazing amount of material already contained within the Star Trek universe. (Why create an enemy when there's so many to choose from.) I can't count the number of things wrong with Nemesis and I find myself amazed that I liked Insurrection better! (Nemesis should've kicked ass.)
The wedding stuff was fruity, nobody goes to a Trek Flick for car chase scenes, not once did the enterprise or it's crew seem to be in danger (Even when it rammed the other ship!), and my mid was throbbing with how much they tried to make this movie like Kahn.
Data died sacrificing himself for everyone, leaving behind a bit of himself in another android. (Sound familiar?) There was a drawn out final battle with lots of close ups that ended with both ships getting totaled and the bad guy blowing himself up with some amazing destructive weapon. (Where did I see that before?) Picard found (something close to) his son. Etc, etc, etc.
I think Star Trek needs a little outsider influence. Let's get Joss Whedon, Sam Raimi, M. Knight Shyamalan or anyone else with some vision!
Tuesday night around 9:00PM EST I saw a fairly large "shooting star", it took a few seconds to cross the sky. I saw it through quite a bit of light pollution too, but I've actually seen a fireball while I was in Badlands National Park a few years back. This was no fireball, but definetly not the norm.
Not as bad as watching the girl from trading spaces getting married on a wedding story. But I made my girlfriend sit through the junkyard wars marathon around thanksgiving, so I can put up with it.
Thanks to my new Replay4K, I'll be watching a Marathon of all the Next Generation episodes I've been recording off of TNN.
Commercial Advance Rules!
I've got 1.1Mbps SDSL in Detroit. Works beautifully. My install only took 1.5 weeks start to finish. (I've been told this is very unusual.) I had a few problems up front, but Speakeasy credited me for the time I was unhappy. During the day it's almost impossible to get a person on the phone. (At night it's a snap.) The best part of Speakeasy's service is their VERY knowledge tech support staff. I reccomend them to anyone that is in their coverage.
Secret of NIMH, probably on my favorite movies as a kid. And now it's all possible...
Interesting fact from that movie, Shannen Doherty did the voice of the little mouse Teresa.
"Quantum Project" is definetly not worth the six dollars.
Here's a summary of the plot: Physicist works at particle accelerator. (Played by Stephen Dorff) He starts to believe he can create his own reality while pursuing an ex-lover. (Played by Fay Masterson, who is a hottie.) Throw in a bunch of cheesy effects, blatant misuse of Quantum Mechanics terminology and some nutty dialog by John Cleese, (Who plays the Physicists father.) you've got this movie.
The only cool thing about "Quantum Project" is that Stephen Dorff and Fay Masterson played opposite each other in one of my favorite movies, "The Power of One". Which I thought was pretty neat.
My opinion, you're much better off taking that six dollars and going to see a matinee showing of "Frequency". The ending was a bit too happy for my tastes, but the plot and character development was amazing. Plus it handles the physics of the situation very eloquently.
My TV has this great feature called TV Guide Plus. It downloads the programming info for every station right over my broadband line. It does the same with an antenna as well. I'd rather not hook my TIVO up to a phone line, so I'll wait till they include that feature to buy one.
Why encrypt for wireless? Just use spread spectrum equipment. Hell, direct sequence is hard enough to grab, let alone frequency hopping...
The PowerComputing PowerWave (IMHO) is one of the best Macintoshes ever made. My PowerWave 604/150MHz has been running non-stop since the day I brought it home from the Macworld Expo.
Over the years I've upgraded the processor to a 604e/200Mhz, added more memory to the 8 DIMM slots (try and find that in a machine today), replaced the 1.2 GB hard drive (it still works, I just needed more space), and replaced the CD-ROM (the tray motor failed, so I put in a nice 32X).
This was the first machine I purchased with my own money - it had a special place in my heart. When I finally needed a newer computer I didn't want to get rid of my old PowerWave. So I slapped down the bucks and bought a copy of LinuxPPC R4. With that and a second network card my old box shines as web server and firewall for my private network.
I can't wait to upgrade to R5 and I heartily reccomend LinuxPPC to anyone with an older Power Macintosh. (if you've never used Linux before, this is a great way to learn) You've still got a great piece of hardware there, LinuxPPC breathes new life into it!
Hmm, I wonder if I should get one of those of those G3 daughtercards to go with my R5 upgrade?
I think I'll put an "I'm Stupid" sticker on my head for today.
All right, so it's company policy for BellSouth not to install on Linux machines. Is that because Linux isn't listed as a supported system or are they specifically NOT installing on Linux? Interested, I looked through my cable provider's policy today and it actually states something similar. They support Windows9X/NT and MacOS 7.X an up. It doesn't mention Linux directly and it doesn't say they won't install on other types of systems - however, it DOES say that they will only install on supported systems.
So I guess it only matters if you get cable/dsl guy that gives a damn. The guy that set up my service said he didn't care if I hooked it up to a toaster, just as long as I could show him it worked. He said they were required to run a small application that tests connectivity. (If that's all the QA they do, why not just write a Java app that does the same thing?)
On one hand I understand BellSouth's side. If they support Windows/MacOS they cover most of the ground. Once they jump into Linux-land things start to get more expensive. On the other hand there should be some kind of option for service that says, give me the box and go away. Preferably at a discount...
To quote the article, "...Linux users could use the system as long as they configured their own computers."
OK, I'm a long time Mac user and ISPs have been telling me this since before I can remember. Last year I got a cable modem and I was told the same thing about my Mac running LinuxPPC. They wouldn't install anything in a box or configure any software unless in was running Windows or MacOS. Fine by me, the last thing I want is somebody messing with my toys.
I guess my rant is this: Why the hell is this an issue at all? The reason I installed Linux in the first place was so I could learn something new. Installing Linux from scratch and trying to figure out how to get it all to work was really lots of fun. I would never want to have someone take all that fun away from me.
Now I understand the basic point. I deal with it everyday at work. We have a certain system that uses Unix servers and NT clients. When a trouble call comes in for that system the support staff just say, "Server is running fine, must be an NT issue. Call them." When the call is placed to the NT support staff they say, "Well your machine seems to be fine, call the software guys." If no one is willing to take responsibility, you may never get your problem solved.
So basically I can see why people are making a stink. I would be frustrated if I called up my cable provider and all they told me was, "Oh you use Linux? Sorry, we don't support that." But that, my friends is the price we pay for being visionaries. For less than 50 bucks I turned an old PowerMac clone into a web server and a firewall. For that, I'm willing to forgo whatever support is offered with a mainstream OS.
For those who care...
Circumventing the showtimes for bunny are easy. Once you succesfully log in for a show just save the asx redirector or real media file. Then you can show your frineds the movie whenever you like.