I almost never watch Enterprise. Not because I don't enjoy it, I just don't watch it. But I caught 'Cogenitor' last night, and was pleased with the end of the episode. On TNG or any of the other series (even DS9), the Cogenitor would have managed to begin a cultural revolution. The suicide was a nice moment. Sure, it makes the series very episodic, but they didn't exactly take the easy way out. Just the other day (again, on accident) I caught the Voyager episode where the Doctor was trying to fight to be termed 'sentient'. The very end of the episode showed the EMH Mk I's exchanging copies of his original draft holo-novel. I expected an ending like this.
Yes, this is about carts, but it made me think of the ubiquitous tape drive. Those things sucked, didn't they? Anyway, has anyone tried to copy those tapes to a cd, then hooked the cd player up to the tape drive port? That would be cool.
I think I'll do that right after I finish strapping the JATO bottle on my Impala.
Unfortunately, after 20 years, the companies have been bought, sold, or dissolved. To do the various court document searches to find out who really holds the copyright may cost tens of thousands of dollars (or less. But while I'm making up shit, I'll make it sound impressive:) You run into two final arbiters. First is one of the big companies that are still around today. Basically, they say, 'fuck you'. We might rerelease this Atari 2600 game one of these days. Or a developer who is now a used car salesmen who says 'fuck you, I'm looking for a publisher who will pay me a million dollars for this game'.
This is a big story outside the 'geekosphere'. How do I know this? The other day, my father said 'So, what do you think of this new music thing that Apple is doing?'
I only wish there were broadband competition where I'm located.
The backfilling can be expensive. At one point in time, I had maybe 20 or 30 DVDs unviewed. Then, life intervened, and I think I only have 3-4:) But, I think I found the best of all worlds: borrowing my father's Sopranos DVDs. Sure, it's a year late, but I'll live.
Most places cannot form their own cable network, as they don't have the money to lay a second set of cable. Comcast has a monopoly on cable television, therefore they essentially have a monopoly on television advertising.
This is what blows my mind: I usually see 2-3 ads for Comcast every day. WTF? I already have Comcast cable.
However, I take exception at preferring removable media and DSL over cable. First, DSL isn't available everywhere (it was available through Northpoint, but Verizon won't). Also, in many areas, cable is much faster. I know it is for me. Second, believe it or not, but there are a few things worth watching on both cable and broadcast television. I also spend much less than one DVD rental per night on cable (granted with NetFlix, I'd spend less on the DVD's)
The cable company has been given a monopoly on the use of the cable television infrastructure. In exchange for that monopoly, they have to behave to a higher standard.
No, they're refusing to let their service be used to aid their competition
Their competition in another market. This is precisely what MicroSoft was found guilty of (using a monopoly in one market to unduly influence another market). Nobody argued that this should be allowed. Hell, even MicroSoft didn't argue this (they argued that they didn't have the underlying monopoly).
Comcast is not the only way you can advertise; it is likely the only way you can advertise on television. You can't exchange five newspaper ads and three radio spots for a 30 second TV ad; each of these hits different markets.
Just got Ultimate Toy Box the other day. And watched Monsters Inc over the weekend. I've gotten so tired of the garbage that I've just left the TV off. After 15 minutes of fussing and stewing, he eventually picks up a book or some toys. (he's not quite two years old)
Around here, it's been Winnie the Pooh for the past week or so. Yes, 'Rumbly in my Tumbly' and 'Wonderful Thing about Tiggers' can cause madness, but it's a nice diversion from a month of 'Elmo Visits the Firehouse'.
CD price is about spot on with the US. And it's too damned expensive here as well:) It sounds like you have a bit of a price break on the McDonald's extra value meal number 1 (aka BigMac, Fries, Coke).
Wouldn't a contingency system work better? Why should I pay the lawyer a set fee when the recovery will likely be greater than that? Why not have it so that I get 10-40% of the recovery, and let the lawyer take the rest?
I see a few problems: first, is there any case law to make this a matter of filling out the correct boilerplate and dropping it off with a judge? Second, how does one collect from out of the country spammers?
It's way too early to do this kind of stuff. Divorces and traffic tickets have been around for quite a while, and the kinks have been worked out of the systems.
What amazes me is that some shyster (pronounced: Peter Angelos) hasn't filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft and everyone else. Seems like the money he could make on that deal would dwarf what he expects to get in the (bogus) cigarette lawsuit.
No problem being pissy. Bandwidth conservation and all that is why I went to a mirror, particularly one I paid for:). FWIW, I downloaded about 1 gig, then quit. I'll do that over the course of a few weeks. The joy of the mirror option is that it will only grab stuff that changes/is new.
Those controllers were a blessing and a curse. IIRC, they had eight positions, instead of the 4 of the 2600 controllers, allowing much more precision of movement. he extra buttons on the sides and the keypad allowed many more input options.
But, there were many, many faults. The hardwiring was perhaps the worst. The disc wasn't appreciated by everyone (You could buy little plastic snap in joysticks that fit over the disc. Remember those?) The little slips of plastic to go over the keypad. How long until you lost or tore them?
Anyway, glad I wasn't the only person who thought 'Intellivision' when seeing the description.
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I almost never watch Enterprise. Not because I don't enjoy it, I just don't watch it. But I caught 'Cogenitor' last night, and was pleased with the end of the episode. On TNG or any of the other series (even DS9), the Cogenitor would have managed to begin a cultural revolution. The suicide was a nice moment. Sure, it makes the series very episodic, but they didn't exactly take the easy way out. Just the other day (again, on accident) I caught the Voyager episode where the Doctor was trying to fight to be termed 'sentient'. The very end of the episode showed the EMH Mk I's exchanging copies of his original draft holo-novel. I expected an ending like this.
Yes, this is about carts, but it made me think of the ubiquitous tape drive. Those things sucked, didn't they? Anyway, has anyone tried to copy those tapes to a cd, then hooked the cd player up to the tape drive port? That would be cool.
I think I'll do that right after I finish strapping the JATO bottle on my Impala.
Unfortunately, after 20 years, the companies have been bought, sold, or dissolved. To do the various court document searches to find out who really holds the copyright may cost tens of thousands of dollars (or less. But while I'm making up shit, I'll make it sound impressive:) You run into two final arbiters. First is one of the big companies that are still around today. Basically, they say, 'fuck you'. We might rerelease this Atari 2600 game one of these days. Or a developer who is now a used car salesmen who says 'fuck you, I'm looking for a publisher who will pay me a million dollars for this game'.
This is a big story outside the 'geekosphere'. How do I know this? The other day, my father said 'So, what do you think of this new music thing that Apple is doing?'
!?
I only wish there were broadband competition where I'm located.
The backfilling can be expensive. At one point in time, I had maybe 20 or 30 DVDs unviewed. Then, life intervened, and I think I only have 3-4:) But, I think I found the best of all worlds: borrowing my father's Sopranos DVDs. Sure, it's a year late, but I'll live.
Most places cannot form their own cable network, as they don't have the money to lay a second set of cable. Comcast has a monopoly on cable television, therefore they essentially have a monopoly on television advertising.
This is what blows my mind: I usually see 2-3 ads for Comcast every day. WTF? I already have Comcast cable.
However, I take exception at preferring removable media and DSL over cable. First, DSL isn't available everywhere (it was available through Northpoint, but Verizon won't). Also, in many areas, cable is much faster. I know it is for me. Second, believe it or not, but there are a few things worth watching on both cable and broadcast television. I also spend much less than one DVD rental per night on cable (granted with NetFlix, I'd spend less on the DVD's)
The cable company has been given a monopoly on the use of the cable television infrastructure. In exchange for that monopoly, they have to behave to a higher standard.
No, they're refusing to let their service be used to aid their competition
Their competition in another market. This is precisely what MicroSoft was found guilty of (using a monopoly in one market to unduly influence another market). Nobody argued that this should be allowed. Hell, even MicroSoft didn't argue this (they argued that they didn't have the underlying monopoly).
Comcast is not the only way you can advertise; it is likely the only way you can advertise on television. You can't exchange five newspaper ads and three radio spots for a 30 second TV ad; each of these hits different markets.
Just got Ultimate Toy Box the other day. And watched Monsters Inc over the weekend. I've gotten so tired of the garbage that I've just left the TV off. After 15 minutes of fussing and stewing, he eventually picks up a book or some toys. (he's not quite two years old)
Around here, it's been Winnie the Pooh for the past week or so. Yes, 'Rumbly in my Tumbly' and 'Wonderful Thing about Tiggers' can cause madness, but it's a nice diversion from a month of 'Elmo Visits the Firehouse'.
CD price is about spot on with the US. And it's too damned expensive here as well:) It sounds like you have a bit of a price break on the McDonald's extra value meal number 1 (aka BigMac, Fries, Coke).
Moss-Magnuson Act.
(You must wait 20 seconds before replying, because CT can't type fast enough)
Wouldn't a contingency system work better? Why should I pay the lawyer a set fee when the recovery will likely be greater than that? Why not have it so that I get 10-40% of the recovery, and let the lawyer take the rest?
I see a few problems: first, is there any case law to make this a matter of filling out the correct boilerplate and dropping it off with a judge? Second, how does one collect from out of the country spammers?
It's way too early to do this kind of stuff. Divorces and traffic tickets have been around for quite a while, and the kinks have been worked out of the systems.
He lives in a van down by the river. What other hobbies could he possibly have?
No, he's too busy delivering pizzas at his second job to pay for his $1000 interconnects to a shitty stereo to have time to listen to AAC.
Big deal; I work in the family business.
Ditto.
BTW, you're down to 66 freaks. I have no idea why I foed you.
What amazes me is that some shyster (pronounced: Peter Angelos) hasn't filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft and everyone else. Seems like the money he could make on that deal would dwarf what he expects to get in the (bogus) cigarette lawsuit.
No problem being pissy. Bandwidth conservation and all that is why I went to a mirror, particularly one I paid for:). FWIW, I downloaded about 1 gig, then quit. I'll do that over the course of a few weeks. The joy of the mirror option is that it will only grab stuff that changes/is new.
Those controllers were a blessing and a curse. IIRC, they had eight positions, instead of the 4 of the 2600 controllers, allowing much more precision of movement. he extra buttons on the sides and the keypad allowed many more input options.
But, there were many, many faults. The hardwiring was perhaps the worst. The disc wasn't appreciated by everyone (You could buy little plastic snap in joysticks that fit over the disc. Remember those?) The little slips of plastic to go over the keypad. How long until you lost or tore them?
Anyway, glad I wasn't the only person who thought 'Intellivision' when seeing the description.
Worth reading only for a laugh.
You figured that out all on your own?
Just one more step towards a nation of snitches...
I'd be much more interested if the government funded a nation of snatches.
You forgot smelly.
I'm getting it from sailor. I'm a Md. taxpayer. They owe me.
Still, I'll start sifting through them. Unfortunately, there's no easy to use interface (that I've seen) for grabbing, say, 1000 that you really want.
If you have the cygwin stuff installed, yes.