Umm... what exactly are you implying? They both came out at roughly the same time. According to tv.com, DS9 premiered in January 1993. Babylon 5's pilot aired in February 93, followed by its first episode in January 94.
JMS pitched the idea for Babylon 5 to Paramount in 1989. Production of Babylon 5 began before Paramount began producing DS9. The announcement of DS9 came after the announcement of Babylon 5. You can read more about the whole situation here.
I loved Deep Spance 9 because unlike TOS and TNG where it was a space ship flying around causing trouble, with DS9 the trouble came to the station. It was neat to have something different, and I really liked that.
And when IT confronts you and says that your machine accesses playboy.com, you can just say "I was merely downloading the latest version of Fedora Core!"
In other news, woodpeckers have suddenly become a very popular pet. Nobody is sure why there is a sudden surge in popularity of the birds, but a large percentage of the new owners seem to be locksmiths and reformed cat burglars.
So basically, analysts do nothing. They act like they "analyze" and make predictions, but in fact they rely on the companies themselves to do all the work for them.
I believe it was the first 16-bit home computer. Unfortunately, it ran slower than all the 8-bit competitors available at the same time. But my parents bought me one (no doubt because they were on clearance) and I was writing all sorts of cheezy programs in basic in no time! I wrote two programs that used every last bit of the available memory in that machine. Took forever to load & save programs from tape.
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It was apparently a GMC S-15, not a Chevy S-10.
As you know, GMC already garnered the world's fastest pickup award last year in an S-15, and now they've done it again, posting a two-way speed of 204.145mph in a new Cyclone LSR
Anywho, did they test the effects of having a hard/soft cover for the bed?
I remember reading about a team that was trying to set the land speed record for a truck (not exactly sure what the class was). They were racing it on the salt flats. Anyhow, I remember that they ended up putting a tonneau cover over only the back half of the bed, because they found that it resulted in less drag than a full tonneau.
The big issue as far as I can see is that boosters need something to kick against, and at the moment they use the ground to get the vast majority of their initial thrust, then the thicker atmosphere to get up enough speed.
Go attend a Physics 101 class. Rockets do not work by "kicking" against the ground or atmosphere. They work by throwing a lot of their mass backwards at high velocity, thereby propelling the rest of their mass forwards (this is based on one of those old-fashioned Newton's laws - for every action, there is an equal & opposite reaction).
Remember those memory stick select sticks? They basically shove two separate memory sticks into a single package, and add a small switch that lets you choose which one to use.
This actually sounds like the one case where that might be preferable to having a regular memory stick.
They wern't that great. The great thing about them is that they came with Basic. Never going back to that 40 column display, junky sound, and summersaults to get more than 16 colors on the screen at a time
But compare them to the IBM PC's of that time!
You're talking about 2 colors (black and green/amber, depending on what monitor you bought), no sound other than the beeps from the built-in speaker, and an order of magnitude higher price tag.
The only thing that the PC-compatibles really had going for them was that they were compatible with the computers that people used at work, and they were immensely upgradable due to the ISA bus. And apparently, that was enough to marginalize every other player (except Apple, which had a strong foothold in the education sector).
Remember back in the 1980's when Commodore, Tandy, Atari, and Texas Instruments lead the pack in home computers? These machines were priced right around the magical $300 mark back then. So how did we go from such great, cheap machines to the expensive PC-compatibles just a few years later?
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And when IT confronts you and says that your machine accesses playboy.com, you can just say "I was merely downloading the latest version of Fedora Core!"
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In other news, woodpeckers have suddenly become a very popular pet. Nobody is sure why there is a sudden surge in popularity of the birds, but a large percentage of the new owners seem to be locksmiths and reformed cat burglars.
I need to get a job like that.
Fun times. :-)
It was apparently a GMC S-15, not a Chevy S-10.
Thanks. I'm glad someone gets my jokes. Karma be damned, it's worth it to make someone laugh. :-)
I guess God wants me to get first post today.
Seems to be working againg. All the latest articles are showing moderation in the comments now.
Yep, I see that the last 10 articles (at least) do not have a single post moderated above 3.
...They're GRRREAT!
(as Tony the Tiger would say)
I've had completely free digital mobile service on 5 phones with T-mobile going on two years now.
This actually sounds like the one case where that might be preferable to having a regular memory stick.
You're talking about 2 colors (black and green/amber, depending on what monitor you bought), no sound other than the beeps from the built-in speaker, and an order of magnitude higher price tag.
The only thing that the PC-compatibles really had going for them was that they were compatible with the computers that people used at work, and they were immensely upgradable due to the ISA bus. And apparently, that was enough to marginalize every other player (except Apple, which had a strong foothold in the education sector).
Remember back in the 1980's when Commodore, Tandy, Atari, and Texas Instruments lead the pack in home computers? These machines were priced right around the magical $300 mark back then. So how did we go from such great, cheap machines to the expensive PC-compatibles just a few years later?