I paid like $30, and I get to watch each episode the day after it comes out. At that price, it's not a heck of a lot different from buying a Blu-Ray set, and I don't have to wait.
Of course, if I were more patient, all the episodes would be on Netflix in about a year.
That's a silly statement. I can't legally disable the emissions controls on my car nor can I legally modify my router to use banned spectrum bands, but that doesn't mean i don't own both things.
Of course you can. You can legally disable whatever you want on your vehicle. What you won't be allowed to do is have it pass inspection, or drive it on public roads.
And as the other poster mentioned, (and I actually do have an amateur license,) I can modify my router to transmit on any band that I have privileges on, that allows that particular emission type, (60-meters/5MHz is the only one I can think of that would completely bar something like that.) For that matter, I could modify it to transmit on bands where I don't have privileges, and you could, too. What neither of us would be allowed to do is transmit on publicly owned airwaves not allocated to that use.
In both cases, it's not that you can't modify your own equipment, (car, wifi router,) it's that you cannot use uncertified equipment on a public owned resource, (public roadways, public airwaves.)
A lot of businesses give their employees a choice only between either the current Samsung flagship products or the iPhone. It's IT policy where I work for sure. Maybe the everyday consumer can walk away, but many professionals are going to be hit hard if/when such a thing occurs.
Furthermore, this battery issue isn't just limited to Samsung if you RTFA.
This is ridiculous. If your employer's IT is saying they can only support the latest Samsung flagship, or an iPhone, (you didn't specify latest,) then they need to be fired. Even in the "worst case" scenario of having to support Exchange, ActiveSync has been available Android, and hence Samsung's phones, for a VERY long time.
Gibson's been done, and guess what? It sucked. Johnny Mnemonic was a great short story, but whoever it was that got it onto the big screen oughta be shot.
And you'll be replacing that N2U400A within two years.
ECS used to make decent equipment. The K7S5A is exceptional for low-end applications, but it seems like everything they've put out since about the time of the K7SEM and K7SOM+ is utter, unreliable, crap.
I've said it before in this article, but I'll say it again:
It's not the 64-bitness of the Athlon 64. It's the changes in architecture (more general purpose registers, on-die memory controller, hyperthreading, SSE2, etc.) The Athlon 64 out-performs any other x86 desktop CPU on the market today, including the P4EE.
Couple this with a much lower price than the P4EE. Hell,/. just had an article on the A64 3000+, referring to it as a budget CPU. My wholesale prices also support this, (somewhere around $145 for an A64 2800+, maybe $170 for a 3000+.)
All of this adds up to a very impressive package for my customers. And I'm getting nothing but rave reviews on the machines I'm building with Athlon 64s. To hell with whether or not they're doing what they're designed to do! They're fast, and inexpensive. Talk about a gamer's dream. And let's face it, the 64-bitness will be useful in the future, but is only an afterthought for the consumer, right now.
In my experience, people aren't exactly upgrading solely because the Athlon 64 is 64-bits. They're upgrading because the engineers took the oppurtunity to change the architecture of the CPU, thus yielding drastic performance benefits.
Athlon 64s are simply the fastest desktop CPUs I've ever seen (and I've seen every single one from Intel, AMD, and VIA/Cyrix since the 8086, all the way up to the P4EE and AthlonFX.)64-bitness is almost a happy afterthought for most of my customers.
My shop has built ~30 Athlon 64-based, and at least one (that I know of,) AthlonFX based systems since AMD's 64 bit line has come out. And let me tell you what, there IS a big difference. I would put ANY Athlon 64 up against ANY Pentium, and bet a paycheck that it would whoop the Intel in terms of real world performance.
Can't wait until I've saved up enough to buy my new system.
Actually, according to established timeline, it seems to me that the Romulans would be there before Klingons.
But this is Enterprise, B&B have already screwed the timeline up, and like others have said, the third season has been pretty good. I have to wonder though, what're they going to do with a 4th season?
UPN refuses cable, so I don't get to see much of DS9, my close second favorite. Possibly the cable issues are hurting UPN these days. When your target audience is geeks, and they need to put up with bad reception and rabbit ears to view your show, good luck.
What are you talking about? Philadelphia's UPN 57 comes in on cable channel 11 on Comcast Cherry Hill, NJ.
I once heard that the reason TOS did so badly in it's original run was because how ratings were taken back in the 60s. Something like maybe they didn't organize by/ignored demographics, and that if they had done that, they would've seen that they had a very high percentage of the demographic that Enterprise is going for now.
I don't know if that's true, or not, but if it is, it shows a difference between what happened then, and what's happening now.
Nip/Tuck lives up to any hype you folks are getting, across the pond. I can't wait for season two to start.
On an aside, my Tuesday night used to be composed of Nip/Tuck, and a British import called MI-5. A&E over here in the states just finished up running the first season of it, and I wonder if any of you British can tell me if there's a second season, or if they just end it like that?
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Vudu, which is how I'm watching the current season of Better Call Saul.
I paid like $30, and I get to watch each episode the day after it comes out. At that price, it's not a heck of a lot different from buying a Blu-Ray set, and I don't have to wait.
Of course, if I were more patient, all the episodes would be on Netflix in about a year.
That's a silly statement. I can't legally disable the emissions controls on my car nor can I legally modify my router to use banned spectrum bands, but that doesn't mean i don't own both things.
Of course you can. You can legally disable whatever you want on your vehicle. What you won't be allowed to do is have it pass inspection, or drive it on public roads.
And as the other poster mentioned, (and I actually do have an amateur license,) I can modify my router to transmit on any band that I have privileges on, that allows that particular emission type, (60-meters/5MHz is the only one I can think of that would completely bar something like that.) For that matter, I could modify it to transmit on bands where I don't have privileges, and you could, too. What neither of us would be allowed to do is transmit on publicly owned airwaves not allocated to that use.
In both cases, it's not that you can't modify your own equipment, (car, wifi router,) it's that you cannot use uncertified equipment on a public owned resource, (public roadways, public airwaves.)
A lot of businesses give their employees a choice only between either the current Samsung flagship products or the iPhone. It's IT policy where I work for sure. Maybe the everyday consumer can walk away, but many professionals are going to be hit hard if/when such a thing occurs.
Furthermore, this battery issue isn't just limited to Samsung if you RTFA.
This is ridiculous. If your employer's IT is saying they can only support the latest Samsung flagship, or an iPhone, (you didn't specify latest,) then they need to be fired. Even in the "worst case" scenario of having to support Exchange, ActiveSync has been available Android, and hence Samsung's phones, for a VERY long time.
Mod this up insightful. DSTAR is expensive, ridiculous crap.
Not so here in Dallas, 70cm is actually pretty active. 1.25m on the other hand...
The only time I have come across one that breaks this was "White Fang 2".
Don't forget "Godfather Pt. II" Arguably better than the original, but definitely just as good.
Better yet, every time you would've leveled, get an additional talent point, for assignment to a talent tree.
Gibson's been done, and guess what? It sucked. Johnny Mnemonic was a great short story, but whoever it was that got it onto the big screen oughta be shot.
And you'll be replacing that N2U400A within two years.
ECS used to make decent equipment. The K7S5A is exceptional for low-end applications, but it seems like everything they've put out since about the time of the K7SEM and K7SOM+ is utter, unreliable, crap.
Ahem.
:p But even if you weren't on the overall system, I was comparing just the CPUs.
Care to go up against the machine I'm building on Monday?
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
1GB Kingston HyperX DDR RAM, Dual Channel
Radeon 9800Pro, 256 DDR onboard
2 37GB 10k RPM Seagate Raptor SATA HDDs
Sorry, realistically, you're burnt.
You are of course right, and I am entirely too late in admitting it. I was, of course, referring to HyperTransport.
Cheers!
I've said it before in this article, but I'll say it again:
/. just had an article on the A64 3000+, referring to it as a budget CPU. My wholesale prices also support this, (somewhere around $145 for an A64 2800+, maybe $170 for a 3000+.)
It's not the 64-bitness of the Athlon 64. It's the changes in architecture (more general purpose registers, on-die memory controller, hyperthreading, SSE2, etc.) The Athlon 64 out-performs any other x86 desktop CPU on the market today, including the P4EE.
Couple this with a much lower price than the P4EE. Hell,
All of this adds up to a very impressive package for my customers. And I'm getting nothing but rave reviews on the machines I'm building with Athlon 64s. To hell with whether or not they're doing what they're designed to do! They're fast, and inexpensive. Talk about a gamer's dream. And let's face it, the 64-bitness will be useful in the future, but is only an afterthought for the consumer, right now.
In my experience, people aren't exactly upgrading solely because the Athlon 64 is 64-bits. They're upgrading because the engineers took the oppurtunity to change the architecture of the CPU, thus yielding drastic performance benefits.
Athlon 64s are simply the fastest desktop CPUs I've ever seen (and I've seen every single one from Intel, AMD, and VIA/Cyrix since the 8086, all the way up to the P4EE and AthlonFX.)64-bitness is almost a happy afterthought for most of my customers.
Ok, I'm feeding the trolls, apparently, but it's a legitimate question. And the answer, of course, is:
As long as Microsoft leads the desktop operating system market, and as long as people need backwards compatibility to apps compiled for x86."
Remove those two requirements, and you'll see a different architecture become dominant. But, really, is it likely to happen any time soon?
My shop has built ~30 Athlon 64-based, and at least one (that I know of,) AthlonFX based systems since AMD's 64 bit line has come out. And let me tell you what, there IS a big difference. I would put ANY Athlon 64 up against ANY Pentium, and bet a paycheck that it would whoop the Intel in terms of real world performance.
Can't wait until I've saved up enough to buy my new system.
Actually they had a manned Jupiter mission in 2001, and a manned mission again in 2010.
And in the book, 2001, the mission wasn't to Jupiter. It was to Saturn.
As Gabriel Bell, which is exactly what was supposed to happen. ;)
Actually, according to established timeline, it seems to me that the Romulans would be there before Klingons.
But this is Enterprise, B&B have already screwed the timeline up, and like others have said, the third season has been pretty good. I have to wonder though, what're they going to do with a 4th season?
What if they have a Polaroid camera?
UPN refuses cable, so I don't get to see much of DS9, my close second favorite. Possibly the cable issues are hurting UPN these days. When your target audience is geeks, and they need to put up with bad reception and rabbit ears to view your show, good luck.
What are you talking about? Philadelphia's UPN 57 comes in on cable channel 11 on Comcast Cherry Hill, NJ.
Did you miss the whole damned B-4 subplot?
That's the show I'm talking about. Thanks for the info, you've given me something to look forward to. :)
I once heard that the reason TOS did so badly in it's original run was because how ratings were taken back in the 60s. Something like maybe they didn't organize by/ignored demographics, and that if they had done that, they would've seen that they had a very high percentage of the demographic that Enterprise is going for now.
I don't know if that's true, or not, but if it is, it shows a difference between what happened then, and what's happening now.
As it should. I believe it was originally a Rod Stewart song.
God, I'm embarrased I even know that...
Nip/Tuck lives up to any hype you folks are getting, across the pond. I can't wait for season two to start.
On an aside, my Tuesday night used to be composed of Nip/Tuck, and a British import called MI-5. A&E over here in the states just finished up running the first season of it, and I wonder if any of you British can tell me if there's a second season, or if they just end it like that?