Re:Star Trek TNG on the "New" TNN
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Growing trend? Source, please.
TNN dropped the "Nashville Network" from its name, and is re-inventing itself as a "normal" cable channel. Most likely due to declining ratings. How better to get an instant leg up than to purchase a series guaranteed to bring the kind of viewers your station wants? While they watch Star Trek: The Political Correctness, endless advertising for other TNN programming is constantly broadcast. TNN is operated by MTV Networks, a division of, wait for it...Viacom
TNG isn't science fiction at all...it's a drama, set on a starship. The series is about the interactions between people and cultures. The writers merely put [TECH] when something is required to be explained, and someone else comes up with the technobabble later. They never discuss science-y, Tom Clancyish things like the exact capabilites of the ship's sensors or weapons. How many photon torpedoes does it take to get to the chewy candy center of a Romulan warbird? The world may never know.
Perhaps the NBA. I don't know...car racing was just ruined for me when I found out that the guys that win all the time simply have faster cars than everyone else. I had always assumed the vehicles were approximately equal in performance. But nope, that's just not true. An underdog can't just come out of nowhere and win, like the New England Patriots did earlier this year.
Sports aren't about competition, they're about satisfaction and cameraderie. Only professional players care about winning at all costs, the word amateur literally means "one who plays for love of the game". Selecting and purchasing sports accessories is a major attraction to the affluent, and is the reason why non-team sports are so popular these days. Golfing, kayaking, rock climbing, and hiking/camping aren't cheap! We're not talking about two-ropes-and-a-sheet tents, this is the real deal from REI. You can use the exact same equipment used by Everest expiditions, for example. Being able to emulate one's heroes in such a manner is highly satisfying to those that can afford it. If everyone and his dog was able to participate, far less satisfaction would be had. A wholesome sense of superiority over the rest of one's countrymen is essential to good mental health, and purchasing sports accessories in order to identify with groups you admire enables this.
None of this has much to do with tennis, which has seen its popularity fall through the floor since the 70s and 80s. Look at any country club, they don't have nearly as many tennis courts or tournaments as in days past.
I completely agree with the inbred remark, that's why I pointed out the pitfalls of zero-cost of entry...who wants to play with a bunch of hicks? I capitalized my sentences, too, is that OK?
buying accessories for your activities is fun, and is one of the main reasons affluent people participate in them. if you're participating in a sport with zero cost of entry, you're probably going to be out on a field with rednecks and other white trash.
active suspension basically let the cars drive themselves. of course, formula 1 racing is about as entertaining as picking your toenails, or soccer. the same people win again, and again, and again, and again. yawn.
How do you code an online game, with no cheat detection, and release it? That's shoddy work. Heck, why am I complaining...I'm lucky if half the games out there even have the ability to kick players off the multiplayer server (not talking about the endless march quake/doom clones, but rather games for mere mortals such as I-76 or IL-2 Sturmovic).
Of course they're having fun, they're winning the game! Why else would anyone play a game unless it's to finish in first place? OGC puts you in first place. Where's the issue here? Go to any FPS discussion board, people there are not about "having fun".
Of course, the real culprit is game companies who produce shoddy code. As has been reported every time this subject comes up, the ancient game Netrek solved the problem.
Yup, I still buy PC games from comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.marketplace. The prices are low and the people are generally honest, and the dishonest ones are quickly outed. Plus, let's face it, used PC games generally go for about $15, so there's little incentive for ripoff artists to operate. Usenet people generally have much greater respect for one another than joeblow4421@hotmail.com has for anniesmom44@aol.com.
One could also check out specialty websites like Game Trading Zone, where users trade games they don't play anymore for ones they want. The system matches the user up with other users that have compatible needs, so a trade can be possibly negotiated. Pretty neat, and the system has enough users on it to make the matching effect worthwhile.
There are many, many ways to pull dirty tricks on ebay, false feedback from dummy accounts is only one of them. One guy in particular took off with $300,000 in auction profits after establishing a stellar reputation with ebay's feedback system. Ebay's real problem is its success...it's too big. Once a system of any kind gets that big, it begins to be able to support predators, and the sharks come out and start eating people alive. I used to buy things from ebay frequently, but now I only use it as a last resort for otherwise-unfindable items like videos...the non-censored version of "Weird Al" Yankovic's UHF (the comedy channel version SUCKS), and Penn & Teller Get Killed.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Have you watched American television in the last 10 years? They're incredibly prickly about getting racial stereotypes "correct". You'll never see an African-American janitor, nor a white judge.
Hey. Anime freak. Nobody uses S-VHS, and nobody is talking about it. Why don't you go back and watch Cowboy Bebop again, or some other Japanese animation that employes tired racial stereotypes?
They had that joke at least twenty years ago...from Airplane...
Kid: Can I ask you a question? Pilot: What is it? Kid: It's an interrogative statement, used to test knowledge, but that's not important right now, mister.
McCroskey:
We keep losing their radio. Burgess Meredith:
McCroskey, give it to me straight, what's it look like? McCroskey:
A radio? Well, about so big, green, with numbers, lots of knobs.
In a remarkable tete-a-tete with a US journalist and former arms control
official, Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, First Deputy Defense Minister and Chief
of the General Staff, interpreted the real meaning of SDI: "We cannot
equal the quality of U.S. arms for a generation or two. Modern military
power is based on technology, and technology is based on computers. In the
US, small children play with computers.... Here, we don't even have
computers in every office of the Defense Ministry. And for reasons you
know well, we cannot make computers widely available in our society. We
will never be able to catch up with you in modern arms until we have an
economic revolution. And the question is whether we can have an economic
revolution without a political revolution."
In a remarkable tete-a-tete with a US journalist and former arms control
official, Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, First Deputy Defense Minister and Chief
of the General Staff, interpreted the real meaning of SDI: "We cannot
equal the quality of U.S. arms for a generation or two. Modern military
power is based on technology, and technology is based on computers. In the
US, small children play with computers.... Here, we don't even have
computers in every office of the Defense Ministry. And for reasons you
know well, we cannot make computers widely available in our society. We
will never be able to catch up with you in modern arms until we have an
economic revolution. And the question is whether we can have an economic
revolution without a political revolution."
Read that last sentence again - it's a thousand-pound gorilla.
Uh, none? Journalists say it on a daily basis, and professors are free to teach whatever they want inside their own classroom, including bankrupt ideologies.
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TNN dropped the "Nashville Network" from its name, and is re-inventing itself as a "normal" cable channel. Most likely due to declining ratings. How better to get an instant leg up than to purchase a series guaranteed to bring the kind of viewers your station wants? While they watch Star Trek: The Political Correctness, endless advertising for other TNN programming is constantly broadcast. TNN is operated by MTV Networks, a division of, wait for it...Viacom
TNG isn't science fiction at all...it's a drama, set on a starship. The series is about the interactions between people and cultures. The writers merely put [TECH] when something is required to be explained, and someone else comes up with the technobabble later. They never discuss science-y, Tom Clancyish things like the exact capabilites of the ship's sensors or weapons. How many photon torpedoes does it take to get to the chewy candy center of a Romulan warbird? The world may never know.
Perhaps the NBA. I don't know...car racing was just ruined for me when I found out that the guys that win all the time simply have faster cars than everyone else. I had always assumed the vehicles were approximately equal in performance. But nope, that's just not true. An underdog can't just come out of nowhere and win, like the New England Patriots did earlier this year.
None of this has much to do with tennis, which has seen its popularity fall through the floor since the 70s and 80s. Look at any country club, they don't have nearly as many tennis courts or tournaments as in days past.
I completely agree with the inbred remark, that's why I pointed out the pitfalls of zero-cost of entry...who wants to play with a bunch of hicks? I capitalized my sentences, too, is that OK?
buying accessories for your activities is fun, and is one of the main reasons affluent people participate in them. if you're participating in a sport with zero cost of entry, you're probably going to be out on a field with rednecks and other white trash.
active suspension basically let the cars drive themselves. of course, formula 1 racing is about as entertaining as picking your toenails, or soccer. the same people win again, and again, and again, and again. yawn.
People actually watch these entertainment industry award shows? What if Jerry Springer comes on at the same time?
Defcon is well-known as a gathering of computer-illiterates. Once upon a time it was where the elite meet.
How do you code an online game, with no cheat detection, and release it? That's shoddy work. Heck, why am I complaining...I'm lucky if half the games out there even have the ability to kick players off the multiplayer server (not talking about the endless march quake/doom clones, but rather games for mere mortals such as I-76 or IL-2 Sturmovic).
Of course, the real culprit is game companies who produce shoddy code. As has been reported every time this subject comes up, the ancient game Netrek solved the problem.
One could also check out specialty websites like Game Trading Zone, where users trade games they don't play anymore for ones they want. The system matches the user up with other users that have compatible needs, so a trade can be possibly negotiated. Pretty neat, and the system has enough users on it to make the matching effect worthwhile.
There are many, many ways to pull dirty tricks on ebay, false feedback from dummy accounts is only one of them. One guy in particular took off with $300,000 in auction profits after establishing a stellar reputation with ebay's feedback system. Ebay's real problem is its success...it's too big. Once a system of any kind gets that big, it begins to be able to support predators, and the sharks come out and start eating people alive. I used to buy things from ebay frequently, but now I only use it as a last resort for otherwise-unfindable items like videos...the non-censored version of "Weird Al" Yankovic's UHF (the comedy channel version SUCKS), and Penn & Teller Get Killed.
Don't like it? Scratch your itch! Write one yourself!
Nobody in your family has ever been a victim of a crime, right?
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Have you watched American television in the last 10 years? They're incredibly prickly about getting racial stereotypes "correct". You'll never see an African-American janitor, nor a white judge.
Great...then all your friends can see grainy, jerky videos of a crappy series that has nothing to do whatsoever with robots.
Who is Yes? Some tired 80s band or something? Are they popular with the rave crowd? Why are they relevant in the year 2002?
Hey. Anime freak. Nobody uses S-VHS, and nobody is talking about it. Why don't you go back and watch Cowboy Bebop again, or some other Japanese animation that employes tired racial stereotypes?
It's not whoring when you provide a useless, information-free link.
you're not a quake twitch-specialist, are you? I didn't see a single mention of FPS or poly count.
When analog media decays, you get bits of noise in the screen
When digital media decays, you get "Cannot play back the file. The format is not supported".
Kid: Can I ask you a question?
Pilot: What is it?
Kid: It's an interrogative statement, used to test knowledge, but that's not important right now, mister.
McCroskey: We keep losing their radio.
Burgess Meredith: McCroskey, give it to me straight, what's it look like?
McCroskey: A radio? Well, about so big, green, with numbers, lots of knobs.
Read the last sentence over, and over, and over.
Read that last sentence again - it's a thousand-pound gorilla.
Uh, none? Journalists say it on a daily basis, and professors are free to teach whatever they want inside their own classroom, including bankrupt ideologies.