no, star trek isn't geeky anymore. Words in the theme song, sarcastic vulcans and crappy story lines. There will never be another ST:TNG and we're all worse off for it. Voyager sucked, DS9 wasn't NEthing but a Baylon Five based in the Star Trek universe and Enterprise isn't NE better. It's time for a new show in a new world with new characters and story lines.
Web Techniques (now New Architect) has got an interesting article on a similar topic. the question is, will people be willing to substitute ease of use and standerdization for security. considering how C# IS part of the visualstudio.net package and we can expect to see C# play a critical role in M$ internet take over scheme, i would rather stick with older technology that works than newer tech thats easier.
y is it that everytime anything good from japan makes it ove here we have to "westernize" it? Like everybody said, Akira is good as it is. but that's not the only thing we've melted down to make affable to american audiences. Godzilla, Micrsofts forray into the gaming market and the massacering of anime to fit American television standards r all good examples of wut the money gluttons can do to a fine peice of work if they're allowed to get their grubby hands on it!
i miss the good old days of gaming. back when only gamers and REAL programers made the games now there are code grinders out there working for companies like M$ that couldn't give a rat turd less about inovating or trying new things. All they see the market as, is another place to make money. Sega and Nintendo were the last of the REAL gaming cmpanies after SNK, Atari, and 3DO dropped out of the console market. nintendo and Sega have got my money. I'll NEVER give my money to the profiteering M$ or sony. They couldn't care less about gamers. all they care about is money. LONG LIVE INOVATION!!! LONG LIVE NINTENDO!! LONG LIVE SEGA!!
The next generation was the best ever. The original was good and i obviously can't bad talk it because of the fact that it fathered the rest. Deep Space Nine was more of a space opera, Voyager was good until they guest starred the rock and then it was over. Enterprise is just horrible. No Star Trek theme song should ever have words and the Vulcan's sarcasm is so blatantly obvious. I mean, even Spock, who was only half vulcan didn't throw in any one liners or stupid remarks. Star trek left its roots and has now turned commercial. There are no more interesting plot lines or stories. I hope there will eventually be another Star Trek good enough to rival TNG because Enterprise has completely and utterly failed
y is it that all of the adults on Slashdot have to make fun of teenagers. Once again I'm stuck reading another stereotypical article trash talking teenagers (the whole 13 yr. old boy thing). It's not like we're all a bunch of script kiddies out to hack your stuff. And even if we are, you guys, being the adults and commercial software makers and vendors, should learn to make your XXXX more secure. everytime I read something that has a bad review or is talking about hacking, all I get is 16 yr. old this and 15 yr. old that. you were once there to and many of yesterdays hackers and crackers are todays technology leaders
I remember back when we tried using p2p in the ealry days. Not everything is suitable for P2P Especially not gaming. doom without a centraized server is not a good thing (2 people geting the same item at the same time, etc...) anyways, server based sites are MUCH better. Crackers would have a field day with small peices of data that could be manipulated each time it was sent to another comp. maybe i just have the concept wrong but i think it holds alot of security risks
.....and I registered. (I eventualy got tired of Capt. Hector shooting me in Escape Velocity : ^ )
but seriously, they are a great company and I've been playing their games for years. I like their games so much that although I don't have a Mac, I still registered just to play on my cousins machine.
I did a post similar to this on a past story but i think that this could be good, out where i live it is either the 20 channel, slow cable or the expensive dish, this might bring up competition and bring prices down. man it sucks being 16 and livin in the country
IBM and AOL Time Warner should get together
they are both powerfull, if they don't stop Microsoft, nothing will. Linux to Windows-
MSNBC to ALL of time warner's stations
and all of their other resources. i'm just woried what replacing one monoply with another would accomplish
I find myself going less and less to mesage boards and more to peoles personal pages. people seem to put things there that they would never say in real life, only in a diary or somthing but that seems all part of the past now. i think people get a better sense of closure on their problems in knowing that no matter how minute the chances of someone reading it, i think that people always have that thought that someone is reading it and that they got out what they needed to, anyway, just my thoughts
i pay my taxes to use the roads, i pay taxes to be protected by the military, I pay taxes for access to schools and if my taxes are paying for this research, then damned, i want access to it to.
while i am just as concerned about this as everyone else. the problem comes when the technologies and methods used are not disclosed
when the gov. starts using tech to spy on us but we arent even aware that they are even capable or when we quit getting info like this is when the
fbi is allowed to run rampant because, if they can tap what we do withought us knowing then whats to keep them from doing other more harmfull things withought us knowing im all for the counterterrorism measures being taken but i would rather live in danger than sacrafice my rights
srry, typing with DC controller
Right now I'm at a friends house playing network Quake and starcraft with 5 peeps. COuldn't Imagine a better New Years Eve.
You all hava good one k?
Lets hope this coming year has more good tech, sci-game-anime stuff, and other good geeky things.
Happy New Year!!!!!
c-bob
i read somethin' about this in wired
im pretty stupid though and allthough i understand the potential capabilities
i dont understand the process and theory
anyone explain?
I just left a similar post on the Earthlink buys Omnisky story, but like I said there, living out in rural Ohio leaves very few options for internet options. If it's cheap enough, I'll drop my local ISP and get a wireless one so I can play UT and Starcraft in the car.;?)
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no, star trek isn't geeky anymore. Words in the theme song, sarcastic vulcans and crappy story lines. There will never be another ST:TNG and we're all worse off for it. Voyager sucked, DS9 wasn't NEthing but a Baylon Five based in the Star Trek universe and Enterprise isn't NE better. It's time for a new show in a new world with new characters and story lines.
Web Techniques (now New Architect)
has got an interesting article on a similar topic.
the question is, will people be willing to substitute ease of use and standerdization for security. considering how C# IS part of the visualstudio.net package and we can expect to see C# play a critical role in M$ internet take over scheme, i would rather stick with older technology that works than newer tech thats easier.
y is it that everytime anything good from japan makes it ove here we have to "westernize" it? Like everybody said, Akira is good as it is. but that's not the only thing we've melted down to make affable to american audiences. Godzilla, Micrsofts forray into the gaming market and the massacering of anime to fit American television standards r all good examples of wut the money gluttons can do to a fine peice of work if they're allowed to get their grubby hands on it!
i miss the good old days of gaming. back when only gamers and REAL programers made the games
now there are code grinders out there working for companies like M$ that couldn't give a rat turd less about inovating or trying new things. All they see the market as, is another place to make money. Sega and Nintendo were the last of the REAL gaming cmpanies after SNK, Atari, and 3DO dropped out of the console market. nintendo and Sega have got my money. I'll NEVER give my money to the profiteering M$ or sony. They couldn't care less about gamers. all they care about is money.
LONG LIVE INOVATION!!!
LONG LIVE NINTENDO!!
LONG LIVE SEGA!!
The next generation was the best ever. The original was good and i obviously can't bad talk it because of the fact that it fathered the rest. Deep Space Nine was more of a space opera, Voyager was good until they guest starred the rock and then it was over. Enterprise is just horrible. No Star Trek theme song should ever have words and the Vulcan's sarcasm is so blatantly obvious. I mean, even Spock, who was only half vulcan didn't throw in any one liners or stupid remarks.
Star trek left its roots and has now turned commercial. There are no more interesting plot lines or stories. I hope there will eventually be another Star Trek good enough to rival TNG because Enterprise has completely and utterly failed
y is it that all of the adults on Slashdot have to make fun of teenagers. Once again I'm
stuck reading another stereotypical article trash talking teenagers (the whole 13 yr. old
boy thing). It's not like we're all a bunch of script kiddies out to hack your stuff. And
even if we are, you guys, being the adults and commercial software makers and vendors,
should learn to make your XXXX more secure. everytime I read something that has a bad review or is talking about hacking, all I get is 16 yr. old this and 15 yr. old that. you were once there to and many of yesterdays hackers and crackers are todays technology leaders
I remember back when we tried using p2p in the ealry days. Not everything is suitable for P2P
Especially not gaming. doom without a centraized server is not a good thing (2 people geting the same item at the same time, etc...)
anyways, server based sites are MUCH better. Crackers would have a field day with small peices of data that could be manipulated each time it was sent to another comp.
maybe i just have the concept wrong but i think it holds alot of security risks
.....and I registered. (I eventualy got tired of Capt. Hector shooting me in Escape Velocity : ^ )
but seriously, they are a great company and I've been playing their games for years. I like their games so much that although I don't have a Mac, I still registered just to play on my cousins machine.
Long Live Ambrosia!!!!!
I wonder wut OS they r running on the machines in that lab FP!!!!!!
I did a post similar to this on a past story but i think that this could be good, out where i live it is either the 20 channel, slow cable or the expensive dish, this might bring up competition and bring prices down. man it sucks being 16 and livin in the country
i remember them being bought out or something
but i thought that it would take longer than this for them to start producing things again
IBM and AOL Time Warner should get together
they are both powerfull, if they don't stop Microsoft, nothing will. Linux to Windows-
MSNBC to ALL of time warner's stations
and all of their other resources. i'm just woried what replacing one monoply with another would accomplish
anybody know of a site thats up with hacks to get past this?
i pay my taxes to use the roads, i pay taxes to be protected by the military, I pay taxes for access to schools and if my taxes are paying for this research, then damned, i want access to it to.
it never ceases to amaze me just how stupid they are [cd-i their early dvd roms, and now this!!!!]
If they'd done that, I swear I would've had to stand in front of the theatre and protest, I swear that I would
I saw something on TechTV about this.
My question is will it really mean diaster if something like a sim city kinda miss happens?
Wait till I create and assimilate
I will create my BORG DRONES!!!!!!!
YAAHAAHA!
My borg cubes will destroy you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
while i am just as concerned about this as everyone else. the problem comes when the technologies and methods used are not disclosed
when the gov. starts using tech to spy on us but we arent even aware that they are even capable or when we quit getting info like this is when the
fbi is allowed to run rampant because, if they can tap what we do withought us knowing then whats to keep them from doing other more harmfull things withought us knowing im all for the counterterrorism measures being taken but i would rather live in danger than sacrafice my rights
srry, typing with DC controller
Right now I'm at a friends house playing network Quake and starcraft with 5 peeps. COuldn't Imagine a better New Years Eve.
You all hava good one k?
Lets hope this coming year has more good tech, sci-game-anime stuff, and other good geeky things.
Happy New Year!!!!!
c-bob
i read somethin' about this in wired
im pretty stupid though and allthough i understand the potential capabilities
i dont understand the process and theory
anyone explain?
I'm readinga good book rigt now about te attempt at the first computer called, "The difference Engine". It'd b Charles Babbage and is prett good.
I just left a similar post on the Earthlink buys Omnisky story, but like I said there, living out in rural Ohio leaves very few options for internet options. If it's cheap enough, I'll drop my local ISP and get a wireless one so I can play UT and Starcraft in the car. ;?)