olmos has the look, but not the voice. they have him always muttering/grumbling under his breath and he doesn't really have the vocal presence one would expect.
patrick stewart had both a commanding presence and a voice which got your attention.
it's like they feel they have to bring out the jiggling titties every 10 minutes or so in order to keep the viewers attention, because they don't think their story is good enough to stand on its own.
hey! you still paying attention? titties! titties! here you go! see! this is a really good sci-fi show! jiggle jiggle jiggle! don't you want to watch some more now?
:-P
it's like watching a scene from the sopranos, and then suddenly it switches over to american gladiators without warning.
unfortunately i suspect i'm in the/. minority with regards to the BSG T&A.:-/
Keep in mind that no graphics card on the market can fully support Doom III, with all features turned on, at a high framerate.
nonsense. nvidia 6800 series can do it just fine. 6800 ultra can support 1024x768 with full doom3 features turned on, and still get faster than monitor refresh (>100fps).
...at customer request. we give customers switches on their webpage-control-panel and they can block anyone and anything they want. a huge percentage of customers block china, korea, russia, etc. because they dont speak mandarin, cantonese, or read BIG5 or EUC-KR or KOI8. customer's choice. boo hoo for the spammers.
a huge number of networks out there are completely irresponsible. they have no working postmaster@ (required by rfc) and abuse@ (optional, but generally expected). quite often the email address on their webpages, phone numbers on their webpages, and email addresses/phone numbers in whois are wrong.
others have retarded / broken "content filters" making it impossible to report to them any abusive emails originating directly from their customers.
just a few of the 500+ irresponsible networks i track, who originate spam/viruses/etc directly from ip addresses owned and operated by them, but who can't be bothered to accept complaints:
rima-tde.net charter.com dsl-verizon.net army .mil asu.edu ecu.edu charterga.net vic.gov.au cwpanama.net charterpipeline.net telekom.at to ronto.edu faa.gov cableaz.net ncyu.edu.tw cgoc able.ca choiceone.net
it's really sad because most of them should really know better. though some of them do know better, and deliberately choose to ignore complaints as a matter of official corporate policy (eg exodus, now dead...).
so yes, network operators do bear a huge burden of responsibility for spam, and a lot of spam is due to these network operators ignoring complaints and ignoring repeated and constant network abuse originating directly from their customers.
looks like it had NO cleanup. they didn't bother to run it through a TBC or correct any dropouts. no noise reduction either. and they left it interlaced, which is just wrong for display on progressive displays (eg every PC monitor in the world).
with a bit of work it could be something special. this posted one is pretty rough.
...and from what i could tell it looked like it was much higher quality. so this video wasn't lost by any means. nor is it the first time it's been seen. TOTN broadcast in 1996.
can anyone else who has a copy of triumph of the nerds confirm the video quality?
billy mays is at least sorta convincing. ballmer makes you want to run away and hide. the video isn't even the slightest bit funny, it's just sad and pathetic.
For a receiver that doesn't buffer and re-clock the incoming digital signal you can get jitter. Jitter causes high frequency harmonic distortion. Lot's of jitter sounds like ass.
you might have been able to find such receivers 20 years ago, but nobody makes such retarded receivers anymore.
1. develop some new drm, employ it on all your devices. 2. some years later, your drm is on nearly every product sold. your standard is entrenched. success! 3. some hacker in (some country outside us jursidiction) cracks your drm with a pocket calculator and releases the crack to the world. hundreds of millions of drm devices are effectively neutered. 4.... 5. er, profit?
actually, intel really doesn't like being bitch to microsoft. bill gates has threatened andy grove on more than one occasion, and andy apparently doesn't like that.
while the chinese government might do a lot of distasteful things, they dont always do things completely arbitrarily. even totalitarian states like to have an image of due process.:)
anyway what happened is they had their offices searched and their computers confiscated (according to the whiny semi-apologetic mail later received). they were basically shut down totally, at least for a short while.
they werent killed or tortured or even imprisoned. but they were definitely scared shitless, and they arent laughing anymore. it cost them time, money, and probably a heart attack or two.
just write a nice letter to the chinese embassy / chinese law enforcement, that a company you were working with turned out to be a front for a pro-democracy revolutionary group, falun gong, or pro-taiwan-independence movement or something.
i've gotten chinese spammers shut down this way, when they laughed at me. they aren't laughing anymore.
my memory of xanadu is not roller disco boots, but rather that olivia newton-john could look hot in that muse outfit and ribbons in her hair. of course I was less than 10 at the time so my memories might be a little blurred...
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exactly. regardless of what was required by JEDEC bylaws or not, what rambus did was truly evil.
if that was the case, why was rambus convicted of fraud, and fined?
i know rambus got the fine reduced, but afaik the fraud conviction still stands.
is jeffrey combs as commander shran. i also liked his work in ds9 as weyoun.
too bad they ended ds9. it was far better than tng or enterprise or that voyager rot.
olmos has the look, but not the voice. they have him always muttering/grumbling under his breath and he doesn't really have the vocal presence one would expect.
patrick stewart had both a commanding presence and a voice which got your attention.
is lay off the gratuitous T&A with baltar.
:-P
/. minority with regards to the BSG T&A. :-/
it's like they feel they have to bring out the jiggling titties every 10 minutes or so in order to keep the viewers attention, because they don't think their story is good enough to stand on its own.
hey! you still paying attention? titties! titties! here you go! see! this is a really good sci-fi show! jiggle jiggle jiggle! don't you want to watch some more now?
it's like watching a scene from the sopranos, and then suddenly it switches over to american gladiators without warning.
unfortunately i suspect i'm in the
Keep in mind that no graphics card on the market can fully support Doom III, with all features turned on, at a high framerate.
nonsense. nvidia 6800 series can do it just fine. 6800 ultra can support 1024x768 with full doom3 features turned on, and still get faster than monitor refresh (>100fps).
postmaster is not optional. period. if you accept email, you are required to have a functioning postmaster address. this is a non negotiable point.
see: RFC 2821
section 3.1 paragraph 2
section 3.6 paragraph 3
section 4.5.1 paragraphs 2,3
the only case where it is even remotely close to "optional" is section 3.1 paragraph 3, in which case you would be rejecting all mail outright...
studies show neither dvorak nor qwerty have an advantage. in fact they show almost any random arrangement of keys appears to work equally well.
but when it comes to joe blow user who doesn't want his email filtered... what's a small ISP to do?
you give them a web-based control panel that lets them control filtering for their account.
we find most customers choose to turn filtering ON rather than turn it OFF.
it doesnt stop pingfloods.
...more like 99.999%
...at customer request. we give customers switches on their webpage-control-panel and they can block anyone and anything they want. a huge percentage of customers block china, korea, russia, etc. because they dont speak mandarin, cantonese, or read BIG5 or EUC-KR or KOI8. customer's choice. boo hoo for the spammers.
a huge number of networks out there are completely irresponsible. they have no working postmaster@ (required by rfc) and abuse@ (optional, but generally expected). quite often the email address on their webpages, phone numbers on their webpages, and email addresses/phone numbers in whois are wrong.
y .mil o ronto.educ able.ca
others have retarded / broken "content filters" making it impossible to report to them any abusive emails originating directly from their customers.
just a few of the 500+ irresponsible networks i track, who originate spam/viruses/etc directly from ip addresses owned and operated by them, but who can't be bothered to accept complaints:
rima-tde.net
charter.com
dsl-verizon.net
arm
asu.edu
ecu.edu
charterga.net
vic.gov.au
cwpanama.net
charterpipeline.net
telekom.at
t
faa.gov
cableaz.net
ncyu.edu.tw
cgo
choiceone.net
it's really sad because most of them should really know better. though some of them do know better, and deliberately choose to ignore complaints as a matter of official corporate policy (eg exodus, now dead...).
so yes, network operators do bear a huge burden of responsibility for spam, and a lot of spam is due to these network operators ignoring complaints and ignoring repeated and constant network abuse originating directly from their customers.
looks like it had NO cleanup. they didn't bother to run it through a TBC or correct any dropouts. no noise reduction either. and they left it interlaced, which is just wrong for display on progressive displays (eg every PC monitor in the world).
with a bit of work it could be something special. this posted one is pretty rough.
...and from what i could tell it looked like it was much higher quality. so this video wasn't lost by any means. nor is it the first time it's been seen. TOTN broadcast in 1996.
can anyone else who has a copy of triumph of the nerds confirm the video quality?
triumph of the nerds had the same video, and it looked like it was much higher quality than this.
not only that, the clip in TOTN looked a lot better than this copy.
billy mays is at least sorta convincing. ballmer makes you want to run away and hide. the video isn't even the slightest bit funny, it's just sad and pathetic.
For a receiver that doesn't buffer and re-clock the incoming digital signal you can get jitter. Jitter causes high frequency harmonic distortion. Lot's of jitter sounds like ass.
you might have been able to find such receivers 20 years ago, but nobody makes such retarded receivers anymore.
...was so important, you should read it twice!
who wants to bet they'll post it a third time?
1. develop some new drm, employ it on all your devices. ...
2. some years later, your drm is on nearly every product sold. your standard is entrenched. success!
3. some hacker in (some country outside us jursidiction) cracks your drm with a pocket calculator and releases the crack to the world. hundreds of millions of drm devices are effectively neutered.
4.
5. er, profit?
actually, intel really doesn't like being bitch to microsoft. bill gates has threatened andy grove on more than one occasion, and andy apparently doesn't like that.
while the chinese government might do a lot of distasteful things, they dont always do things completely arbitrarily. even totalitarian states like to have an image of due process. :)
anyway what happened is they had their offices searched and their computers confiscated (according to the whiny semi-apologetic mail later received). they were basically shut down totally, at least for a short while.
they werent killed or tortured or even imprisoned. but they were definitely scared shitless, and they arent laughing anymore. it cost them time, money, and probably a heart attack or two.
don't get mad, get even.
just write a nice letter to the chinese embassy / chinese law enforcement, that a company you were working with turned out to be a front for a pro-democracy revolutionary group, falun gong, or pro-taiwan-independence movement or something.
i've gotten chinese spammers shut down this way, when they laughed at me. they aren't laughing anymore.
my memory of xanadu is not roller disco boots, but rather that olivia newton-john could look hot in that muse outfit and ribbons in her hair. of course I was less than 10 at the time so my memories might be a little blurred...