"Stargate's been old and tired for years...since O'Neil left."
"It's O'Neill, with two L's. There's another Colonel O'Neil with only one L, and he has no sense of humor at all."
"Stargate:Atlantis has never been anything more than mediocre. It's like Star Trek all over, the show gets lamer and lamer, but they just keep propping up the corpse for "the fans"."
It started off lame, but it's gotten better over the years. Writing off the Wraith in favor of the Asurans was one of the best moves they've ever done.
And why worry about the cash and airtime involved? It's cable. There are how many channels of cable now? Let them produce what they want, ultimately the ratings will dictate whether the show survives its fourth season. If it does, then obviously it's good enough for another year.
Plus you would think any military commander would try to avoid the idea of becoming too dependent on weapons one is barely capable of understanding. Sure, they've got the Daedalus on an assembly line now it seems, but for all the advanced tech it sports, it still fires mass drivers and nuclear missiles.
It's one thing to get the tech and use it, it's another to understand it. They understand guns and nukes just fine, as do we. It's unsurprising that they shy away from using energy weapons on a regular basis because how truly screwed would they be if the energy weapons didn't work? How different would the outcome of the Replicator war have been had Earth previously transitioned over from bullets to zappers?
It wouldn't surprise me if, on down the road, Earth's space forces still sport the older, "tried and true" mass drivers and nukes. Enemies like the Replicators (and now the Asurans) demonstrate that higher tech doesn't always make for a more-effective weapon. That kind of hubris killed the (un-ascended) Ancients and nearly killed the Asgard. It will probably also lead to the demise of the Ori and the Asurans.
And then maybe they can come up with an original idea for a new enemy.
I don't think that's why it's getting dumped. There was never that huge of a stink raised over them making fun of religion. Heck I don't recall anyone ever making a stink over it at all. It's always been on cable so who really cares about what happens on cable?
It wasn't even an overt (anti-)Christian theme. The closest it got to being blaringly obvious was the whole "holy grail"/"sangraal" thing yet nobody made a stink over that (on theological grounds anyways). I think Christians these days have a lot more to worry about than a science-fiction TV series of little societal consequence using bits of their mythology to tell a story. Even if it makes the Ancients (who are obviously akin to angels) look and sound like arrogant pricks. But they've always been that way, even when they were mortal humans.
Oh crap. I just forgot, in a couple of cases it did fail, the aforementioned Wraith scrambling the transporter beam to prevent nukes being brought on board, and the hasty repairs to the transporter to attempt to beam Teal'c off of... what was it, a Lucian Alliance hatak? In both cases though it ultimately ended up being an Asgard responsible for attempting to fix the problem, and they never really got around the Wraith's counter. If there's no Asgard around to fix the problem, do we assume they left an instruction manual written in English that explains how to fix the problem?
It was used quite casually because it was Asgard technology. Heck we could go so far as to refer to it as "magic" because it never failed. It was 100% guaranteed success every single time. The novelty wore off.
Though I should also point out that beaming technology was used quite often before the Asgard interfered. Ancient ring teleportation, stolen from the Goa'uld, was used quite excessively before the Asgard gave Earth their "upgrade." Technically they still have ring transporters on the Daedalus, presumably because the designers felt the necessity of having some sort of "backup" in place just in case the Asgard tech failed.
So maybe they did come to understand it pretty fast. Or at least Carter, McKay and Zelenka did. The rest of the casts of both shows treat the technology as magic, because they don't have the slightest clue how any of it works. Even after Carter/McKay/Zelenka attempt to explain it.
The Ori are pretty much gods in much the same sense that biblical fallen angels would prefer to be considered gods in their own right. Heck, I would think by now the parallels are obvious.
They offset that rise in technology by creating enemies wherein they literally were back to square one. Great, so they had battlecruisers. So what? They had battlecruisers arrayed against two new enemies (the Ori and the Wraith) that both had their means of practically negating the advantages the Daedalus-class maintained against the Goa'uld. The Daedalus-class came too late to do much of anything against the Goa'uld and couldn't do much of anything against the Ori or the Wraith, the latter being a case of violating treaty to beam armed nukes aboard Wraith hive ships until they conveniently nixed that sole advantage in record time for a species that still can't seem to prevent their own hyperdrives from overheating.
Yeah, the technology advances ruined the notion of this being contemporary Earth military forces against the overwhelming technological superiority of the bad guy aliens, but I'm of the mindset that even that premise would've gotten old after a while. It's actually somewhat refreshing to see contemporary Earth military forces utilizing technology they barely understand in a slightly less-than-vain attempt to ward off numerically and technologically-superior foes. But even that'll get old too, sooner or later.
That's because ST always took itself seriously, whereas until recently SG didn't take itself very seriously (after the movie anyways, which technically doesn't factor into series canon). There was always the sense that the show was more of a comedy within the bounds of science-fiction, so from the start you pretty much had to take SG with a grain of salt.
Well yeah I would think so, maybe this person's livelihood relies on such a project continuing to receive funding?
Is putting a lot of people out of work in the process of shitcanning a military contract worth "saving money?" Cuz this is the US federal government we're talking about here, the money is going to be wasted regardless of where it's spent.
I have XP on four computers and haven't reformatted any of them in the past two years. They all still "run decently."
I think the two key things I did to prolong XP's life on my machines was to put them all behind a firewall and to set Firefox as the primary browser (and disable regular access to IE.)
Stardock Central is friendlier than Steam, IMO. I've logged onto my account to update Galciv2 on multiple computers simultaneously and it has never bitched about that.
Your counter-explanation is flawed, unless of course you're a Wii beta-tester and have experience on the new system. I for one haven't played ANY Wii games, so by your logic, I have should have no concerns because the control scheme hasn't yet changed.
Now if they were to fundamentally alter the control scheme a couple of years down the road with the Wii, then yes, I'd be concerned, but only if it affected games I've already purchased.
Besides, this isn't about control style. They're not forcing you to replace your keyboard and mouse with a light gun. All they're doing is justifying having weapons other than the most-popular in the game. So the game strategy changes a bit, so what?
If the school wants to become a willing participant in the payment of the kids' cellphone bills, then and only then should they be allowed unrestricted access to their phone records, lacking a court order.
I can even see how this could be marketed to the parents. Get a percentage of the bill paid for by the state, in return the state gets unrestricted access to your phone records. Anything to save money, right?;)
Jail isn't much of a deterrent because jail isn't much of a punishment. Jail would be a far more-effective deterrent if they threw everyone into Supermax prixons.
Except the banks aren't responsible for the intellectual capacity of their customers. That's why credit card debt exists in the first place. People aren't smart with their money. It's a given fact of life. Phishing is just another example of this.
We're talking about people that majored in something other than computer science. They don't know, nor really care, to check the headers to confirm that the email that supposedly came from their bank did in fact come from their bank, and they don't care to look at the URLs to make certain that they are in fact connecting to their bank's site when they click the link, because that's not what they went to school for.
Online scams are so much more successful simply because any scammer can make themselves look legit to those that aren't really paying attention to the details, details that people outside the field of computer science don't really know nor care to look for.
Mocking the President of the United States in front of his face doesn't take nearly the same amount of chutzpah as, say, mocking the President of Iraq in front of his face, ya know, before he was reduced to hiding in a hole in the ground.
Yeah, because under a truly tyrannical system, unlike the mockery we pay lip service to, once you've said your piece, you disappear from the face of the Earth.
For inbound connections yes, but don't count on a NAT box to block outbound traffic unless you've gone through all the trouble of setting that up yourself.
An out-of-court settlement doesn't automatically carry the implication or admissal of guilt, it just means that one side doesn't feel like fighting the case. Most people settle, simply because an out-of-court settlement is cheaper than hiring an attorney and blowing all that time away attending court hearings.
Furthermore, "guilt" of a tort crime isn't the same as guilt of a "real" crime; all you're really doing is addressing the plaintiff's grievances, regardless of whatever's codified in law.
Oh, speaking of customer service, this morning I fired off an email asking them to partition the drive so that Windows sits on a 20GB and the rest is left alone (preventative maintenance).
ONE MINUTE LATER, I get a response from the sales rep, and it's no problem whatsoever.
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It's flash-based, so am I right in assuming that mapping the pagefile to that drive will dramatically shorten its lifespan?
Dunno about broken covenants, but "SciFi" is short for "science-fiction." Wrestling gets slightly less than half of that right.
"It's O'Neill, with two L's. There's another Colonel O'Neil with only one L, and he has no sense of humor at all."
It started off lame, but it's gotten better over the years. Writing off the Wraith in favor of the Asurans was one of the best moves they've ever done.
And why worry about the cash and airtime involved? It's cable. There are how many channels of cable now? Let them produce what they want, ultimately the ratings will dictate whether the show survives its fourth season. If it does, then obviously it's good enough for another year.
Plus you would think any military commander would try to avoid the idea of becoming too dependent on weapons one is barely capable of understanding. Sure, they've got the Daedalus on an assembly line now it seems, but for all the advanced tech it sports, it still fires mass drivers and nuclear missiles.
It's one thing to get the tech and use it, it's another to understand it. They understand guns and nukes just fine, as do we. It's unsurprising that they shy away from using energy weapons on a regular basis because how truly screwed would they be if the energy weapons didn't work? How different would the outcome of the Replicator war have been had Earth previously transitioned over from bullets to zappers?
It wouldn't surprise me if, on down the road, Earth's space forces still sport the older, "tried and true" mass drivers and nukes. Enemies like the Replicators (and now the Asurans) demonstrate that higher tech doesn't always make for a more-effective weapon. That kind of hubris killed the (un-ascended) Ancients and nearly killed the Asgard. It will probably also lead to the demise of the Ori and the Asurans.
And then maybe they can come up with an original idea for a new enemy.
I don't think that's why it's getting dumped. There was never that huge of a stink raised over them making fun of religion. Heck I don't recall anyone ever making a stink over it at all. It's always been on cable so who really cares about what happens on cable?
It wasn't even an overt (anti-)Christian theme. The closest it got to being blaringly obvious was the whole "holy grail"/"sangraal" thing yet nobody made a stink over that (on theological grounds anyways). I think Christians these days have a lot more to worry about than a science-fiction TV series of little societal consequence using bits of their mythology to tell a story. Even if it makes the Ancients (who are obviously akin to angels) look and sound like arrogant pricks. But they've always been that way, even when they were mortal humans.
Oh crap. I just forgot, in a couple of cases it did fail, the aforementioned Wraith scrambling the transporter beam to prevent nukes being brought on board, and the hasty repairs to the transporter to attempt to beam Teal'c off of... what was it, a Lucian Alliance hatak? In both cases though it ultimately ended up being an Asgard responsible for attempting to fix the problem, and they never really got around the Wraith's counter. If there's no Asgard around to fix the problem, do we assume they left an instruction manual written in English that explains how to fix the problem?
It was used quite casually because it was Asgard technology. Heck we could go so far as to refer to it as "magic" because it never failed. It was 100% guaranteed success every single time. The novelty wore off.
Though I should also point out that beaming technology was used quite often before the Asgard interfered. Ancient ring teleportation, stolen from the Goa'uld, was used quite excessively before the Asgard gave Earth their "upgrade." Technically they still have ring transporters on the Daedalus, presumably because the designers felt the necessity of having some sort of "backup" in place just in case the Asgard tech failed.
So maybe they did come to understand it pretty fast. Or at least Carter, McKay and Zelenka did. The rest of the casts of both shows treat the technology as magic, because they don't have the slightest clue how any of it works. Even after Carter/McKay/Zelenka attempt to explain it.
The Ori are pretty much gods in much the same sense that biblical fallen angels would prefer to be considered gods in their own right. Heck, I would think by now the parallels are obvious.
They offset that rise in technology by creating enemies wherein they literally were back to square one. Great, so they had battlecruisers. So what? They had battlecruisers arrayed against two new enemies (the Ori and the Wraith) that both had their means of practically negating the advantages the Daedalus-class maintained against the Goa'uld. The Daedalus-class came too late to do much of anything against the Goa'uld and couldn't do much of anything against the Ori or the Wraith, the latter being a case of violating treaty to beam armed nukes aboard Wraith hive ships until they conveniently nixed that sole advantage in record time for a species that still can't seem to prevent their own hyperdrives from overheating.
Yeah, the technology advances ruined the notion of this being contemporary Earth military forces against the overwhelming technological superiority of the bad guy aliens, but I'm of the mindset that even that premise would've gotten old after a while. It's actually somewhat refreshing to see contemporary Earth military forces utilizing technology they barely understand in a slightly less-than-vain attempt to ward off numerically and technologically-superior foes. But even that'll get old too, sooner or later.
That's because ST always took itself seriously, whereas until recently SG didn't take itself very seriously (after the movie anyways, which technically doesn't factor into series canon). There was always the sense that the show was more of a comedy within the bounds of science-fiction, so from the start you pretty much had to take SG with a grain of salt.
Is putting a lot of people out of work in the process of shitcanning a military contract worth "saving money?" Cuz this is the US federal government we're talking about here, the money is going to be wasted regardless of where it's spent.
Then they're doing something wrong.
I have XP on four computers and haven't reformatted any of them in the past two years. They all still "run decently."
I think the two key things I did to prolong XP's life on my machines was to put them all behind a firewall and to set Firefox as the primary browser (and disable regular access to IE.)
Stardock Central is friendlier than Steam, IMO. I've logged onto my account to update Galciv2 on multiple computers simultaneously and it has never bitched about that.
Your counter-explanation is flawed, unless of course you're a Wii beta-tester and have experience on the new system. I for one haven't played ANY Wii games, so by your logic, I have should have no concerns because the control scheme hasn't yet changed.
Now if they were to fundamentally alter the control scheme a couple of years down the road with the Wii, then yes, I'd be concerned, but only if it affected games I've already purchased.
Besides, this isn't about control style. They're not forcing you to replace your keyboard and mouse with a light gun. All they're doing is justifying having weapons other than the most-popular in the game. So the game strategy changes a bit, so what?
If the school wants to become a willing participant in the payment of the kids' cellphone bills, then and only then should they be allowed unrestricted access to their phone records, lacking a court order.
;)
I can even see how this could be marketed to the parents. Get a percentage of the bill paid for by the state, in return the state gets unrestricted access to your phone records. Anything to save money, right?
Jail isn't much of a deterrent because jail isn't much of a punishment. Jail would be a far more-effective deterrent if they threw everyone into Supermax prixons.
Except the banks aren't responsible for the intellectual capacity of their customers. That's why credit card debt exists in the first place. People aren't smart with their money. It's a given fact of life. Phishing is just another example of this.
We're talking about people that majored in something other than computer science. They don't know, nor really care, to check the headers to confirm that the email that supposedly came from their bank did in fact come from their bank, and they don't care to look at the URLs to make certain that they are in fact connecting to their bank's site when they click the link, because that's not what they went to school for.
Online scams are so much more successful simply because any scammer can make themselves look legit to those that aren't really paying attention to the details, details that people outside the field of computer science don't really know nor care to look for.
Mocking the President of the United States in front of his face doesn't take nearly the same amount of chutzpah as, say, mocking the President of Iraq in front of his face, ya know, before he was reduced to hiding in a hole in the ground.
Yeah, because under a truly tyrannical system, unlike the mockery we pay lip service to, once you've said your piece, you disappear from the face of the Earth.
For inbound connections yes, but don't count on a NAT box to block outbound traffic unless you've gone through all the trouble of setting that up yourself.
Probably a slipup on his part, as he has to maintain the image of an idiot so that people expect little out of him.
Seriously. That's the only reason I still use Windows.
An out-of-court settlement doesn't automatically carry the implication or admissal of guilt, it just means that one side doesn't feel like fighting the case. Most people settle, simply because an out-of-court settlement is cheaper than hiring an attorney and blowing all that time away attending court hearings.
Furthermore, "guilt" of a tort crime isn't the same as guilt of a "real" crime; all you're really doing is addressing the plaintiff's grievances, regardless of whatever's codified in law.
ONE MINUTE LATER, I get a response from the sales rep, and it's no problem whatsoever.