I don't know about the rest of the country, but since I'm currently sitting in the EPB market that was one of the two area submitted to the FCC I'll have to disagree with you.
Our entire local service area is (more or less) fiber ready, with full speed access available from office complexes down to lower-income residential areas. The sections that initially rolled out weren't "Come to our city" showplaces, but instead established areas both commercial and residential.
At my home (in an average suburban neighborhood) I pay _I believe_ $70/mo for gigabit access (which btw is bidirectional... I test out at around 930mbps both upstream and downstream to the EPB central servers).
And since this is Chattanooga, there are plenty of backwoods trailers and rural houses that are really enjoying their new high speed access without having to be in a "highly profitable" section of town.
And believe me, the areas here and there that don't have access yet are pretty much champing at the bit to get it and be able to drop Comcast like a hot potato. (Which might I add, you should see the Comcast ads around here. They almost seem desperate, but that might just be personal bias);)
It discusses: - MS Zune's does not work with MS Windows Vista - MS Zune's incompatibility with (even) MSN Music Format (you have to rebuild your music collection) - 4 registration's before buying music from the Zune music store (when player installs, MS passport, Music Store Website, Tag registration) - Zune points for buying music, to mislead consumers on the price of music (1 Zune point > 1 dollar, thus 0.79 ZunePoint looks cheaper) - Zune player WiFi music share expires songs shared after 3 times listening or 3 days (whichever comes first)
Hilarious!
You know, this is the same basic list I see over and over of people complaining about the Zune... mostly by people who have never owned or even used one.
I have two of the things, actually. I originally started with a Rio Karma, and got a 4gig Nano to use while exercising. When my Karma died (I felt like someone had shot my puppy) I was in the market for a new player. After using the Nano for a year or so I knew that an iPod wouldn't be a good choice for me.
I ended up getting my wife a Zune for an Xmas present (Had a lot of 'Customer Reward' certificates built up, and got the thing for next to free. Figured 'Why not give it a shot?' Got her the brown one) While I was loading up music that I ripped from her CDs so that when she opened the box on Christmas it'd be preloaded, I really liked the thing so I went out and got myself one.
She loves hers, and the interface was super easy for her to use (her first player) and she raved about the color. She loves being able to put her own pictures as backgrounds, watch videos in the car, and whatnot. She gets me to load music, so it's no biggie to her.
As far as I'm concerned, I think it's a great player. Easy to use, great sound and video quality, etc. Sure you use the Zune software to load music, but I had to use the Rio software for the Karma, and for all intents and purposes you really need to use the iTunes software for the iPod. (I know you can use MSC, but if you do then you lose so many of the 'bells and whistles'. And is it really that much of a pain to drag and drop onto a progam instead of into a folder?)
So that's my background. Now then, that list.
1) The thing works fine with Vista. And it has since about 2 weeks after its launch. A-Ok. Not a problem at all. And when you consider that at the time the business version of Vista had only shipped a few days before the patch was released, does that slight delay matter? Ok, it's a 'ha-ha' point, but that's all.
2-4) These are all points about the Zune software, not the player. And since you can use the software for just about any player out there (it's not actually Zune player specific), it doesn't have any bearing on the player. And since I worked at a music store for waaay too long, that %40 discount I used to get (and leave me broke)I really don't give a darn what they do with the store. I've got a couple of thousand legally purchased CDs worth of ripped music to listen to.
5) The 3x3 thing is really an issue with people? Of course M$ will try to limit people giving out free copies of everyone within 50 feet of the player. I would too. And how in the heck is the player supposed to know whether you're trying to share a new track by your brother garage band or some top 40 hit? "Really, that Creative Commons bit on that track is valid... reeeaalllyy..." I can understand them doing it that way, and in all honesty if someone wants to listen to it more than that just email 'em the thing.
Hmm... other complaints....
Battery life is crap - Well, I'm getting about 12 or so hours of playback under normal conditions. That's with a decent volume, pausing quite frequently as annoying co-workers seem to not want me to finish a freaking song. Oh, and with a 1min backlight and the wireless turned off. (I have no desire to squirt at work)
It's freaking ginormous - Doesn't seem that big to me. Comfortably fits i
Really you should have the CD that has the drivers, technically. If you don't, then there's no difference between Linux and Windows for that matter. Either way you're going to have to pop out to the net on another system to get what you need. This of course is taking for granted that the Linux distro doesn't have built in support for your card. Because if it does, then I hope you're using a card that XP has built in support for so that it's an apples-to-apples comparison.
You could, for example, try loading Fedora or Ubuntu onto a Toshiba Satelite A65 laptop. Setting up the wireless NIC in the original Windows XP install was no problem. Download the driver, install, and roll with it. I gave up after about 3 hours in Fedora, wiped and installed Ubuntu... gave up after another 2 hours and just have the thing plugged into the 100baseT. And in my defense I have 4 computers within reach... one XP, one CentOS v4.4, one FC5, and that Ubuntu install (not sure of the version) and I'm currently SSH'ed into two older Fedora servers. I'm no expert, and tend to Google most of what I need... but are you going to explain to the average user how to install the MadWifi drivers?
I believe it involves (some formatting to get around/.'s char-per-line minimum):
Fedora Core 5 (from source)
To install the latest madwifi:
become root with "su -" then fix modprobe.conf with "vi modprobe.conf". Add this line: "alias ath0 ath_pci"
go to/root: "cd " (so you don't scatter sh*t all around) and check your kernel version: "uname -a"
download and install the kernel headers: "yum install kernel-devel-{kernel-version}"
- download the latest madwifi tarball , untar it, cd to its root directory
Oh, and it doesn't really do any good comparing against Windows 64-bit you know. When you consider that Microsoft themselves have warned away end-users from running it*, well...
These are closely related questions. The initial target audience for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is anyone who is running into performance and memory limits on their 32-b
Currently in Chattanooga, TN there are a group of people fighting emminent domain by the city government for road expansion.
Now this is nothing new, nor is emminent domain in relation to it. Actually this is an example of why I imagine emminent domain was created... a larger road will service the community, and is a public project, etc.
But with the Supreme Court decision it's making papers. And one of the things that's come out is that the city is trying to force these people to take $1.50/sqft. That's one dollar and fifty cents per square foot.
So someone in that area (nice little middle-class residential area... figure homes about $70k-$120k) who loses their entire yard to this project (Figure 100ft of street frontage with 50ft of depth... which is probably a large estimate for a front yard since it's not too rural) they will receive a check for $750 total. (Wonder if they take taxes out of that?)
So if I handed you a check for $750, would you sign away your childrens' future of playing in the front yard?
Main Entry: serendipitous Pronunciation: "ser-&n-'di-p&-t&s Function: adjective : obtained or characterized by serendipity - serendipitously adverb
Main Entry: serendipity Pronunciation: -'di-p&-tE Function: noun Etymology: from its possession by the heroes of the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip : the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for
Therefore it was a nice surprise finding it in the mailbox since he hadn't requested it from the publisher.
Looking at the last 2 from Lucas, it would be like having a 3-course meal where the final dish was fantastic but the first 2 gave you projectile-vomiting food poisoning. No real way to salvage the meal.
Was anyone else bothered by the 'turning away' from the western aspect of the series? I kept an eye out when I heard the techno/industrial song, but all I caught was a glimpse or two of revolvers. I fully imagine that the movie will be true to the series, but I still feel a bit let down that I didn't hear "Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me" in the preview...
It's been running through my head ever since Joss said the trailer was coming...
Granted they were games, but they had hours of fmv in them with people like Mark Hamill, Malcolm McDowell, John Rhys-Davies, and Tom Wilson. From what I remember all of the sets were computer generated, although obviously not to modern levels.
But for 94-96, they were damned impressive games in that respect. Computer games with a hollywood budget.
Actually just as a nitpick, it wasn't Batman. It was when he was talking about his involvement with the then-soon-to-be-file-13'ed 'Superman' effort. The producer of the movie was all excited about doing the picture, but could we have Superman in shorts fighting a huge spider?
Kevin talked about how he was like, "uh, yeah... sure... it's your movie, man" and the guy was just all freaky over getting this huge spider into the flick.
Then they brought Tim Burton in to direct it, who turned around and shredded Smith's screenplay. Burton got his own stable of writers in to re-write it until (apparently) it sucked so bad that the entire project got shelved.
Smith said that what really freaked him out was a couple of years later he went to see another movie that was produced by the same guy. It was The Wild, Wild West (I don't think he ever said who it was, but it sounded like it might've been Barry Sonnenfeld)... and what did he see in there? "A huge f!@#ing mechanical spider!"
An Evening With Kevin Smith... don't just watch it... go out and buy it. Unseen. Just buy it. You'll be glad you did.
My problem is that I have a Sprint PCS phone with text messaging, email, etc.
And lately I've begun getting damned spam on the thing. Here's an address that has never been given out to anyone, so it's even more annoying.
Personally I think it's the most annoying thing since they started putting regular commercials mixed in with previews at the theaters. (After all a TV commercial I can understand. That's how they pay their bills. But I just forked over $10 to see a flick, and they're still subjecting me to a freaking Coke commercial?!)/bugger
True, with the 'Performed previous business transactions with' loophole in the law I would imagine that AT&T is darned near safe with just about everyone.
But to tell you the truth, my phone has been pretty darned quiet since joining the list. My only wish is that you could get flagged to not be called by charities and political campaigns. While I give to charities, it's annoying to have (literally) 10 to 15 different Police charities calling every month (among others).
DARK ANGEL CANCELLED!!!!! People couldn't believe the rumor that came out Wednesday, but it was confirmed on Thursday morning when FOX announced their fall schedule. FOX had canceled Dark Angel in an 11th hour deal to keep Firefly on the air. This was a huge shock to all those involved especially since Dark Angel had its contract signed for the third season and was on the fall schedule up until Tuesday night.
Actually, it seems to have been saved (although they haven't released who did it or how yet)
Taken from www.andromedatv.com (The official site)
Kevin Sorbo Excited About Andromeda's Fifth Season
Kevin Sorbo expressed his enthusiasm for the fifth season of Gene Roddenbery's Andromeda Wednesday, saying that he is looking forward to working once again with the program's tremendously talented cast, and fleshing out new adventures as Capt. Dylan Hunt.
"I think the show is going in a great direction, and that the fans will find it interesting to see how Dylan handles the next round of challenges that come his way. It's great to be back with a cast that's so professional and fun to work with."
Tribune Entertainment Vice President of Programming Bill Hamm says it will be a season that no sci-fi fan should miss.
"It's going to be a thrilling and exciting new adventure -- one that I'm sure will keep fans of Dylan and the crew glued to the screen."
Be sure to catch Season Five of Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, every Friday on the Sci-Fi Channel at 8:00pm starting Sept. 24. Fans can also catch year five of the Andromeda's adventures in syndication beginning the week of Sept. 27 -- check local listings.
Sorbonut broke the news first, but Ashley Edward Miller over at Ex Isle confirmed it: S5 starts production this month. And a bonus: he and Zack Stentz have sold a freelance script for S5 (possibly the fourth episode of the season). So if nothing else, we've got one goodie coming...:)
And in case you're one of the 10 people on this board who hasn't read it, it's a CyberPunk style novel where the interface to a computer/VR is handled by means of goggles that use low intensity lasers played across the retinas to give the ultimate wide-screen experience.
Will the Rio let you open it to change the battery without destroying it? Does it have the iPod problem of "oh the battery died. throw it away and buy another" ?
The Karma doesn't have that problem, so Rio America doesn't have a replacement plan for fear of worrying prospective customers. Rio Japan however has a replacement plan going just in case, net cost of about $40 USD.
The only problem the Karma has had with any real frequency is the hard drive dying. But this is usually attributable to having the unit dropped/jarred/etc (for instance one guy went through five players and was griping. After a while everyone found out that he had it hard mounted into his car with no sort of shock absorption for the unit. Maybe an iPod would handle it better, maybe not.)
And something else that I haven't seen posted about the Karma is gapless playback. I believe it's currently the only unit to support that, which is nice for live recordings.
It has its drawbacks too (can't be seen like a USB drive natively, no folder support, no real case included) but has better sound (supposedly) than the iPod, cheaper than iPod, a _great_ playing interface w/ a very intuitive 'DJ' app, very solid feel, OGG/FLAC, and some very active developers that not only put out firmware updates on a frequent basis with all sorts of nifty things (I think they just put out beat matching. For when you're driving or something and want 'Music With an Insane Beat' or something like that) but actually participate in the forums (Riovolution is one) that are around.
Only had mine for about 2 weeks, but you'd have to cut my hand off at the wrist to get it away from me.
(Oh yeah, and it comes with a set of Sennheiser earbuds. No explanation needed there, I'd think)
Aw crap... end run around RBLs?
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This is actually a heckuva way for the spammers to get around RBLs such as the ones used by Razor for blocking high spam domains. Now instead there will be god knows how many spammers coming from more trustworthy domains such as att.net, comcast.net, msn.com, etc. Granted each person may be only able to do 100 or so a day before tripping their ISP mail server off, but if a few thousand people are doing it... sheesh...
And I just installed SpamAssassin/Amavisd-New/Razor/etc, then they go and do this.
My question here is in relation to the infamous 'Comcast DMCA Letters' that I've heard about, where subscribers are notified that they have been found to be hosting copyrighted files, or otherwise breaking the DMCA, through a p2p program (BitTorrent, Emule, etc). The ISP essentially warns the user, "We know who you are, we know what you're doing, now stop it or we'll cut your access before we're held liable."
but with statements like: No matter what information the copyright owner may provide, the ISP can neither "remove" nor "disable access to" the infringing material because that material is not stored on the ISP's servers. Verizon can not remove or disable one user's access to infringing material resident on another user's computer because Verizon does not control the content on its subscribers' computers
Doesn't that seem to take the burden from the ISP for making sure that the offending material is removed from the subscriber's system?
I agree, especially since it's pointed out very plainly in the article on the WinFS system that it's in place for the 'Documents and Settings' folder instead of for the entire hard drive, and that it'll coexist with Win32 for file accesses.
So what I gathered from it is that your hard drive will still be NTFS, but your documents, favorites, pictures, etc will have an SQL database tied to them with the extended information (EXIF data for pictures, ID3 info for MP3, etc) in a easy environment. Especially since it seems that basic T-SQL can access the data (I believe they use that as an example in the article).
If they keep it with documents/etc, I don't have any real problem with it. I was just afraid they were going to hit the whole filesystem.
Actually if you look into it, the American 'Democratic' model has very little resemblence to that of Athenian government. We're most directly taken from the Roman Republic, which has very little into the way of 'Mob Rule.' (Well, there were those odd tmies, but those don't really count)
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I don't know about the rest of the country, but since I'm currently sitting in the EPB market that was one of the two area submitted to the FCC I'll have to disagree with you.
Our entire local service area is (more or less) fiber ready, with full speed access available from office complexes down to lower-income residential areas. The sections that initially rolled out weren't "Come to our city" showplaces, but instead established areas both commercial and residential.
At my home (in an average suburban neighborhood) I pay _I believe_ $70/mo for gigabit access (which btw is bidirectional... I test out at around 930mbps both upstream and downstream to the EPB central servers).
And since this is Chattanooga, there are plenty of backwoods trailers and rural houses that are really enjoying their new high speed access without having to be in a "highly profitable" section of town.
And believe me, the areas here and there that don't have access yet are pretty much champing at the bit to get it and be able to drop Comcast like a hot potato. (Which might I add, you should see the Comcast ads around here. They almost seem desperate, but that might just be personal bias) ;)
You know, this is the same basic list I see over and over of people complaining about the Zune... mostly by people who have never owned or even used one.
I have two of the things, actually. I originally started with a Rio Karma, and got a 4gig Nano to use while exercising. When my Karma died (I felt like someone had shot my puppy) I was in the market for a new player. After using the Nano for a year or so I knew that an iPod wouldn't be a good choice for me.
I ended up getting my wife a Zune for an Xmas present (Had a lot of 'Customer Reward' certificates built up, and got the thing for next to free. Figured 'Why not give it a shot?' Got her the brown one) While I was loading up music that I ripped from her CDs so that when she opened the box on Christmas it'd be preloaded, I really liked the thing so I went out and got myself one.
She loves hers, and the interface was super easy for her to use (her first player) and she raved about the color. She loves being able to put her own pictures as backgrounds, watch videos in the car, and whatnot. She gets me to load music, so it's no biggie to her.
As far as I'm concerned, I think it's a great player. Easy to use, great sound and video quality, etc. Sure you use the Zune software to load music, but I had to use the Rio software for the Karma, and for all intents and purposes you really need to use the iTunes software for the iPod. (I know you can use MSC, but if you do then you lose so many of the 'bells and whistles'. And is it really that much of a pain to drag and drop onto a progam instead of into a folder?)
So that's my background. Now then, that list.
1) The thing works fine with Vista. And it has since about 2 weeks after its launch. A-Ok. Not a problem at all. And when you consider that at the time the business version of Vista had only shipped a few days before the patch was released, does that slight delay matter? Ok, it's a 'ha-ha' point, but that's all.
2-4) These are all points about the Zune software, not the player. And since you can use the software for just about any player out there (it's not actually Zune player specific), it doesn't have any bearing on the player. And since I worked at a music store for waaay too long, that %40 discount I used to get (and leave me broke)I really don't give a darn what they do with the store. I've got a couple of thousand legally purchased CDs worth of ripped music to listen to.
5) The 3x3 thing is really an issue with people? Of course M$ will try to limit people giving out free copies of everyone within 50 feet of the player. I would too. And how in the heck is the player supposed to know whether you're trying to share a new track by your brother garage band or some top 40 hit? "Really, that Creative Commons bit on that track is valid... reeeaalllyy..." I can understand them doing it that way, and in all honesty if someone wants to listen to it more than that just email 'em the thing.
Hmm... other complaints....
Battery life is crap - Well, I'm getting about 12 or so hours of playback under normal conditions. That's with a decent volume, pausing quite frequently as annoying co-workers seem to not want me to finish a freaking song. Oh, and with a 1min backlight and the wireless turned off. (I have no desire to squirt at work)
It's freaking ginormous - Doesn't seem that big to me. Comfortably fits i
You could, for example, try loading Fedora or Ubuntu onto a Toshiba Satelite A65 laptop. Setting up the wireless NIC in the original Windows XP install was no problem. Download the driver, install, and roll with it. I gave up after about 3 hours in Fedora, wiped and installed Ubuntu... gave up after another 2 hours and just have the thing plugged into the 100baseT. And in my defense I have 4 computers within reach... one XP, one CentOS v4.4, one FC5, and that Ubuntu install (not sure of the version) and I'm currently SSH'ed into two older Fedora servers. I'm no expert, and tend to Google most of what I need... but are you going to explain to the average user how to install the MadWifi drivers?
I believe it involves (some formatting to get around
Yep... my mom would jump right into that.
Oh, and it doesn't really do any good comparing against Windows 64-bit you know. When you consider that Microsoft themselves have warned away end-users from running it*, well...
*Taken from the 64-bit FAQ at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/64bit/rus sel_x64faq.mspx
Currently in Chattanooga, TN there are a group of people fighting emminent domain by the city government for road expansion.
Now this is nothing new, nor is emminent domain in relation to it. Actually this is an example of why I imagine emminent domain was created... a larger road will service the community, and is a public project, etc.
But with the Supreme Court decision it's making papers. And one of the things that's come out is that the city is trying to force these people to take $1.50/sqft. That's one dollar and fifty cents per square foot.
So someone in that area (nice little middle-class residential area... figure homes about $70k-$120k) who loses their entire yard to this project (Figure 100ft of street frontage with 50ft of depth... which is probably a large estimate for a front yard since it's not too rural) they will receive a check for $750 total. (Wonder if they take taxes out of that?)
So if I handed you a check for $750, would you sign away your childrens' future of playing in the front yard?
Main Entry: serendipitous
Pronunciation: "ser-&n-'di-p&-t&s
Function: adjective
: obtained or characterized by serendipity
- serendipitously adverb
Main Entry: serendipity
Pronunciation: -'di-p&-tE
Function: noun
Etymology: from its possession by the heroes of the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip
: the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for
Therefore it was a nice surprise finding it in the mailbox since he hadn't requested it from the publisher.
His use was just fine.
webster.com, people.
Looking at the last 2 from Lucas, it would be like having a 3-course meal where the final dish was fantastic but the first 2 gave you projectile-vomiting food poisoning. No real way to salvage the meal.
.snicker.
He got the idea from the Enterprise run.
Was anyone else bothered by the 'turning away' from the western aspect of the series? I kept an eye out when I heard the techno/industrial song, but all I caught was a glimpse or two of revolvers. I fully imagine that the movie will be true to the series, but I still feel a bit let down that I didn't hear "Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me" in the preview...
It's been running through my head ever since Joss said the trailer was coming...
Sigh...
(Still looks cool as heck though)
You know if they slapped that up on DirecTV as an added channel package, I'd probably jump for it pretty damned quickly.
$20/mo? Not that bad I'd have to say, though I have to admit that it might be annoying having it _forced_ on you
And to support the nitpick:
:-)
K.I.T.T.
Knight Industries Two Thousand
Granted they were games, but they had hours of fmv in them with people like Mark Hamill, Malcolm McDowell, John Rhys-Davies, and Tom Wilson. From what I remember all of the sets were computer generated, although obviously not to modern levels.
But for 94-96, they were damned impressive games in that respect. Computer games with a hollywood budget.
Actually just as a nitpick, it wasn't Batman. It was when he was talking about his involvement with the then-soon-to-be-file-13'ed 'Superman' effort. The producer of the movie was all excited about doing the picture, but could we have Superman in shorts fighting a huge spider?
Kevin talked about how he was like, "uh, yeah... sure... it's your movie, man" and the guy was just all freaky over getting this huge spider into the flick.
Then they brought Tim Burton in to direct it, who turned around and shredded Smith's screenplay. Burton got his own stable of writers in to re-write it until (apparently) it sucked so bad that the entire project got shelved.
Smith said that what really freaked him out was a couple of years later he went to see another movie that was produced by the same guy. It was The Wild, Wild West (I don't think he ever said who it was, but it sounded like it might've been Barry Sonnenfeld)... and what did he see in there? "A huge f!@#ing mechanical spider!"
An Evening With Kevin Smith... don't just watch it... go out and buy it. Unseen. Just buy it. You'll be glad you did.
What with Wamp being so devout to his beliefs on the issues, and Bill Frist co-sponsoring that new bill to outlaw P2P applications... yessiree! I sure am proud to live here in good-ol' progressive Tennessee!
My problem is that I have a Sprint PCS phone with text messaging, email, etc.
/bugger
And lately I've begun getting damned spam on the thing. Here's an address that has never been given out to anyone, so it's even more annoying.
Personally I think it's the most annoying thing since they started putting regular commercials mixed in with previews at the theaters. (After all a TV commercial I can understand. That's how they pay their bills. But I just forked over $10 to see a flick, and they're still subjecting me to a freaking Coke commercial?!)
True, with the 'Performed previous business transactions with' loophole in the law I would imagine that AT&T is darned near safe with just about everyone.
But to tell you the truth, my phone has been pretty darned quiet since joining the list. My only wish is that you could get flagged to not be called by charities and political campaigns. While I give to charities, it's annoying to have (literally) 10 to 15 different Police charities calling every month (among others).
Actually, what killed it was Firefly. Just sayin'. ;-)
(Taken from a cached copy of the Dark Angel Newsletter)
DARK ANGEL CANCELLED!!!!!
People couldn't believe the rumor that came out Wednesday, but it was confirmed on Thursday morning when FOX announced their fall schedule. FOX had canceled Dark Angel in an 11th hour deal to keep Firefly on the air. This was a huge shock to all those involved especially since Dark Angel had its contract signed for the third season and was on the fall schedule up until Tuesday night.
Oh, forgot to mention... that Sorbo interview bit was posted May 12th, long after the whole Fireworks problem.
Actually, it seems to have been saved (although they haven't released who did it or how yet)
:)
Taken from www.andromedatv.com (The official site)
Kevin Sorbo Excited About
Andromeda's Fifth Season
Kevin Sorbo expressed his enthusiasm for the fifth season of Gene Roddenbery's Andromeda Wednesday, saying that he is looking forward to working once again with the program's tremendously talented cast, and fleshing out new adventures as Capt. Dylan Hunt.
"I think the show is going in a great direction, and that the fans will find it interesting to see how Dylan handles the next round of challenges that come his way. It's great to be back with a cast that's so professional and fun to work with."
Tribune Entertainment Vice President of Programming Bill Hamm says it will be a season that no sci-fi fan should miss.
"It's going to be a thrilling and exciting new adventure -- one that I'm sure will keep fans of Dylan and the crew glued to the screen."
Be sure to catch Season Five of Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, every Friday on the Sci-Fi Channel at 8:00pm starting Sept. 24. Fans can also catch year five of the Andromeda's adventures in syndication beginning the week of Sept. 27 -- check local listings.
and from the (soon to be closed) official forums
Sorbonut broke the news first, but Ashley Edward Miller over at Ex Isle confirmed it: S5 starts production this month. And a bonus: he and Zack Stentz have sold a freelance script for S5 (possibly the fourth episode of the season). So if nothing else, we've got one goodie coming...
That was always one of the things I thought was the coolest about Neal Stephenson's book Snow Crash.
And in case you're one of the 10 people on this board who hasn't read it, it's a CyberPunk style novel where the interface to a computer/VR is handled by means of goggles that use low intensity lasers played across the retinas to give the ultimate wide-screen experience.
Will the Rio let you open it to change the battery without destroying it? Does it have the iPod problem of "oh the battery died. throw it away and buy another" ?
The Karma doesn't have that problem, so Rio America doesn't have a replacement plan for fear of worrying prospective customers. Rio Japan however has a replacement plan going just in case, net cost of about $40 USD.
The only problem the Karma has had with any real frequency is the hard drive dying. But this is usually attributable to having the unit dropped/jarred/etc (for instance one guy went through five players and was griping. After a while everyone found out that he had it hard mounted into his car with no sort of shock absorption for the unit. Maybe an iPod would handle it better, maybe not.)
And something else that I haven't seen posted about the Karma is gapless playback. I believe it's currently the only unit to support that, which is nice for live recordings.
It has its drawbacks too (can't be seen like a USB drive natively, no folder support, no real case included) but has better sound (supposedly) than the iPod, cheaper than iPod, a _great_ playing interface w/ a very intuitive 'DJ' app, very solid feel, OGG/FLAC, and some very active developers that not only put out firmware updates on a frequent basis with all sorts of nifty things (I think they just put out beat matching. For when you're driving or something and want 'Music With an Insane Beat' or something like that) but actually participate in the forums (Riovolution is one) that are around.
Only had mine for about 2 weeks, but you'd have to cut my hand off at the wrist to get it away from me.
(Oh yeah, and it comes with a set of Sennheiser earbuds. No explanation needed there, I'd think)
This is actually a heckuva way for the spammers to get around RBLs such as the ones used by Razor for blocking high spam domains. Now instead there will be god knows how many spammers coming from more trustworthy domains such as att.net, comcast.net, msn.com, etc. Granted each person may be only able to do 100 or so a day before tripping their ISP mail server off, but if a few thousand people are doing it... sheesh...
And I just installed SpamAssassin/Amavisd-New/Razor/etc, then they go and do this.
Is how many times one of the creators has been modded down and labelled a 'troll'. ;^)
.snicker.)
http://slashdot.org/~clifgriffin
(Though to be fair, he did get a couple of up-mods as well... but still... he's a troll.
My question here is in relation to the infamous 'Comcast DMCA Letters' that I've heard about, where subscribers are notified that they have been found to be hosting copyrighted files, or otherwise breaking the DMCA, through a p2p program (BitTorrent, Emule, etc). The ISP essentially warns the user, "We know who you are, we know what you're doing, now stop it or we'll cut your access before we're held liable."
but with statements like:
No matter what information the copyright owner may provide, the ISP can neither "remove" nor "disable access to" the infringing material because that material is not stored on the ISP's servers. Verizon can not remove or disable one user's access to infringing material resident on another user's computer because Verizon does not control the content on its subscribers' computers
Doesn't that seem to take the burden from the ISP for making sure that the offending material is removed from the subscriber's system?
I agree, especially since it's pointed out very plainly in the article on the WinFS system that it's in place for the 'Documents and Settings' folder instead of for the entire hard drive, and that it'll coexist with Win32 for file accesses.
So what I gathered from it is that your hard drive will still be NTFS, but your documents, favorites, pictures, etc will have an SQL database tied to them with the extended information (EXIF data for pictures, ID3 info for MP3, etc) in a easy environment. Especially since it seems that basic T-SQL can access the data (I believe they use that as an example in the article).
If they keep it with documents/etc, I don't have any real problem with it. I was just afraid they were going to hit the whole filesystem.
I just wonder how long it is before employees are scanning their buttcheeks. /shrug
Actually if you look into it, the American 'Democratic' model has very little resemblence to that of Athenian government. We're most directly taken from the Roman Republic, which has very little into the way of 'Mob Rule.' (Well, there were those odd tmies, but those don't really count)