"The PC World article has the details, including the fact that Microsoft's $250,000 reward offer was responsible for informants' coming forth with Jaschan's name,"
I can't wait to see how this is twisted into "Microsoft is evil!"
"For the love of god people, disconnect once in a while. I'm all about tech, I do it for a living, but I'm still able to stand being away from my email, cell-phone, and CS long enough to drive from work to home. "
And the immediate leap to the conclusion that it's so that people can stay in the loop while driving begins. Never mind that it'd be a useful device for business types who'd want to use it while sitting at the Starbucks parking-lot....
Man I'm so sick of the doom and gloom "People are on the net too much!" posts getting modded to +5. News for Nerds?
"Can't we just get by without having the need to read email. Atleast while fucking driving. As if we didn't have enough people not paying attention during driving already. "
Hmm... I missed the link in between some company offering a product and mass-adoption and carnage.
I got in trouble in high school over a comment like that. Channel 1 ran a pop quiz "What is the most common cause of plane crashes?" I blurted out "Gravity!"
"The ST franchise has no compunctions with changing canon or storylines simply to show off better special effects"
Bullshit.
a.) The whole premise is that somebody's mucking about with time. This was established in the first ep. There are going to be differences. Especially considering we don't know how far back in time that time's been altered. (we'll ignore, for the moment, the Borg's implications to the time line.)
b.) Klingon makeup and quantum torps? Huh? Care to elaborate a bit?
" Doctor Who didn't change their badguys to update them to new SPEFX."
I still don't understand the nature of this complaint. Whoopie, they gave Klingons bumpy heads. They even pulled off a very amusing joke out of it. The show should die because of something that happened 20 years ago?
"For ghu's sake, please just toss the ST franchise into an airlock and let it go."
I have a better idea: Don't watch it. Some of us have actually sat down, watched it, and enjoy it. I shouldn't lose my entertainment because of your half-baked opinions of the show. You can turn a show you don't like off easier than I can turn a show that isn't on the air anymore back on.
I agree. The radio station would have a stronger case if they had a web presence they were standing behind. Even then, I'm not sure it's techincally illegal.
Frankly, I think catch phrases are a lousy way to hold on to your audience.
"3) Over-reliance on time travel. TOS wasn't exactly time traveless, there had to be 5 or 6 involving it... but every other episode of Enterprise uses this stupid cliche."
That's the basis of the series! Do you have this complaint about Doctor Who as well?
"8) Zero character development. For god's sake, even Andromeda has characters that grow and learn, and exist outside of their duty to the ship."
Been watching?
"11) Insistence on tying in every damn thing that the other series did. Let's see, romulans, klingons, borg, Risa, Enterprise E, and a host of others."
Again, that's the point of the show. (Never mind that the Enterprise-E and the Borg are what kicked it all off to begin with.)
I don't care if you like or hate Enterprise, but when the question is asked "Should Trek die", people start pulling things out of their asses to prove their point. Never mind that the question is completely irrelevant if it still commands an audience. "I don't like it, so nobody else should like it either."
> You buy a new computer because the old one went up in smoke or became obsolete and then you learn that you cannot install the program there because of some protection.
Actually that's what happened at my studio. Pixologic was quite helpful.
> I'd never touch such a program with a ten foot pole if my business depends on it.
Yes, you would. Food on the table > software principles.
"No. That is proof that you are a disturbed individual, and need to seek therapy, possibly in the form of fighting crime while wearing spandex with a clichéd name."
Heh you know you've made a point when the rebuttal is about yourself instead of about what you have said.
"After all, if the US space program can be destroyed by a little thing like a hurricane, I shudder to think what an extraterrestrial disaster would do to us. "
I could kill you with a drop of venom. Is that proof that you are a very weak person?
Slashdot Mirror
"Why would the users at your work be physically near a server to put a USB key in? "
Because not every company is big enough to put everything in a huge vault?
"The PC World article has the details, including the fact that Microsoft's $250,000 reward offer was responsible for informants' coming forth with Jaschan's name,"
I can't wait to see how this is twisted into "Microsoft is evil!"
"For the love of god people, disconnect once in a while. I'm all about tech, I do it for a living, but I'm still able to stand being away from my email, cell-phone, and CS long enough to drive from work to home. "
And the immediate leap to the conclusion that it's so that people can stay in the loop while driving begins. Never mind that it'd be a useful device for business types who'd want to use it while sitting at the Starbucks parking-lot....
Man I'm so sick of the doom and gloom "People are on the net too much!" posts getting modded to +5. News for Nerds?
"Can't we just get by without having the need to read email. Atleast while fucking driving. As if we didn't have enough people not paying attention during driving already. "
Hmm... I missed the link in between some company offering a product and mass-adoption and carnage.
"Personally, I blame the ground."
I got in trouble in high school over a comment like that. Channel 1 ran a pop quiz "What is the most common cause of plane crashes?" I blurted out "Gravity!"
Evidently, that's a 'see the principal' offense.
"The ST franchise has no compunctions with changing canon or storylines simply to show off better special effects"
Bullshit.
a.) The whole premise is that somebody's mucking about with time. This was established in the first ep. There are going to be differences. Especially considering we don't know how far back in time that time's been altered. (we'll ignore, for the moment, the Borg's implications to the time line.)
b.) Klingon makeup and quantum torps? Huh? Care to elaborate a bit?
" Doctor Who didn't change their badguys to update them to new SPEFX."
I still don't understand the nature of this complaint. Whoopie, they gave Klingons bumpy heads. They even pulled off a very amusing joke out of it. The show should die because of something that happened 20 years ago?
"For ghu's sake, please just toss the ST franchise into an airlock and let it go."
I have a better idea: Don't watch it. Some of us have actually sat down, watched it, and enjoy it. I shouldn't lose my entertainment because of your half-baked opinions of the show. You can turn a show you don't like off easier than I can turn a show that isn't on the air anymore back on.
I agree. The radio station would have a stronger case if they had a web presence they were standing behind. Even then, I'm not sure it's techincally illegal.
Frankly, I think catch phrases are a lousy way to hold on to your audience.
"3) Over-reliance on time travel. TOS wasn't exactly time traveless, there had to be 5 or 6 involving it... but every other episode of Enterprise uses this stupid cliche."
That's the basis of the series! Do you have this complaint about Doctor Who as well?
"8) Zero character development. For god's sake, even Andromeda has characters that grow and learn, and exist outside of their duty to the ship."
Been watching?
"11) Insistence on tying in every damn thing that the other series did. Let's see, romulans, klingons, borg, Risa, Enterprise E, and a host of others."
Again, that's the point of the show. (Never mind that the Enterprise-E and the Borg are what kicked it all off to begin with.)
I don't care if you like or hate Enterprise, but when the question is asked "Should Trek die", people start pulling things out of their asses to prove their point. Never mind that the question is completely irrelevant if it still commands an audience. "I don't like it, so nobody else should like it either."
"Can you honestly say that the Lindows name didn't help it?"
Nope, I can't say that. But if it's wrong for MS to break the law to make a product successful, then it's wrong for Lindows to do the same.
Yeah, it might be fun, but you never know when you will bump into people you worked with down the road.
"MS didn't like it when lindows ......"
MS didn't have a choice. MS's greed wasn't the culprit, it was the dumb ass running Lindows' business.
"The story should be called: USPTO stuffs up again."
Slashdot's trying so hard to be an anti-MS watchdog. Wolf! Wolf!
"It is very rare that there is only ONE software program in existence that will do a given job."
In all honesty, and I promise you I'm not saying this to 'win', in this case, ZBrush is the only app for this job.
"Funny how the Justice Department doesn't have the balls to tell MS NO."
If MS habitually made a monopoly out of every product it sells, I might be inclined to agree.
" but it's another to do it so blatantly that you even rip the fucking slogan."
I just can't muster up the energy to glare at MS over it. Sounds to me like Clearchannel finally has a competitor. Oh the horror.
You must be pretty thin skinned. "He typed some stuff on slashdot and aaaaargggghhh I hate him!!!"
Heh.
"But the primary problem is that hardly anyone takes pride or care in what they do anymore."
Like understanding people's short-hand?
"The other story r-blo submitted was probably paid for by Tivo's pr department."
So?
.. I'm leary of anybody whose name rhymes with Vader.
"Yep. Imagine - 30+ years of storylines and characters. Imagine - hordes of slavering geeks aching to live the world of their dreams."
Imagine bitching on Slashdot about it.
"It's due in 2007... Does that mean it will be compatible with longhorn?"
(2004 + (int(rnd)* 5)) + Longhorn == "(Score:5, Funny)"?
I laugh that you're in denial!
> You buy a new computer because the old one went up in smoke or became obsolete and then you learn that you cannot install the program there because of some protection.
Actually that's what happened at my studio. Pixologic was quite helpful.
> I'd never touch such a program with a ten foot pole if my business depends on it.
Yes, you would. Food on the table > software principles.
"No. That is proof that you are a disturbed individual, and need to seek therapy, possibly in the form of fighting crime while wearing spandex with a clichéd name."
Heh you know you've made a point when the rebuttal is about yourself instead of about what you have said.
"After all, if the US space program can be destroyed by a little thing like a hurricane, I shudder to think what an extraterrestrial disaster would do to us. "
I could kill you with a drop of venom. Is that proof that you are a very weak person?