Aside from CPU upgradability, the 6 Thunderbolt ports means that this particular Mac Pro is the single most expandable Mac on the planet. You can add a TON of PCIe expansion boxes to give you a ton of slots as needed, including additional graphics cards, RAID cards, etc.
PCIe expansion boxes are fine for many things including storage. Even PCIe flash and RAID, since only a few seem able to come close to the maximum 20 Gb/s (2.5 GB/s) per channel of a single Thunderbolt 2 port. Extremely high-end RAID or Fusion IO PCIe drive that can hit read speeds of 7 GB/s (assuming this isn't a misleading marketing number), sure that's an issue, but this is probably an edge case--how often do you need that for a single desktop, and are there internal options anyway?
For graphics though, a mobile-class 2012 GPU's host/device data rate was benchmarked at 4-6 GB/s (32 Gb/s+), so I believe external PCIe is a poor option for any video card that's halfway decent.
Yes, because we must find some minor detail, irrelevant to the point of the story, spoken in a hurried, frightened, clandestine meeting, with which to discredit and dismiss the entire thing. Standard PSYOPS response.
It means the source has very strong preconceived notions to start off with. And it is not "some minor detail". Thinking that all of MSNBC or CNN are immune is absolutely ridiculous, and calls into question the source's credibility since he's seeing things that might not be there... or deliberately glossing over things that *are* there. I had been giving the article the benefit of the doubt up to that point, because Obama and his administration (and the rest of the system on top of that, Republican and Democrat alike) have sunk that far.
Because we know that the reference to Marxism was meant in an exclusively literal textbook manner and not at all as a rough description of the manner and methods employed, so it's perfectly logical to entirely dismiss and ridicule anything that might imply government wrongdoing.
A lot of bad things are happening. Some of the stuff the source talked about may indeed be happening. I'm not dismissing it outright.
But the credibility score for anyone goes in the tank whenever the Marxist label is applied to Obama. You can get away with calling Obama leftist or even socialist. Going further than that is like calling Bush Jr. a Nazi. They're both extremely loaded terms that you'd damn well better be sure about before using.
How much do they pay you? Or have you drank so much koolaid that you do it for free? Are you hoping to land a job as an Interment-Resettlement Specialist when the SHTF?
Do you play the paid tool and/or koolaid card on anyone who disagrees with you?
I had no idea what CanadaFreePress was and went in with an open mind. I dug deeper up after the phrasing in the article tipped me off. It has as much an agenda as MSNBC, CNN, except on the side of Fox News.
Did CanadaFreePress or the Republican party pay YOU to repost their article, or have YOU drank so much koolaid that you did it for free?
It's a sad day when an American has to go to China for Sanctuary for reporting violations of the Bill of Rights.
No shit. It's like living in some kind of "Homeland" or other dystopian-future-themed computer game.
I guess the old "reality is stranger than fiction" truism still stands.
Maybe China or Russia will actually end up sending arms and funding to a future American resistance movement like the US has been doing around the world regarding rebels fighting against unfriendly regimes for many decades.
Interesting times, indeed. More than a bit surreal as well.
I admit, they told a good story. They had me going up until this bit: "This administration is collecting names of sources, whistle blowers and their families, names of media sources and everybody they talk to and have talked to, and they already have a huge list. If you’re not working for MSNBC or CNN, you’re probably on that list"
The MSNBC and CNN bit is a tired and obvious giveaway of a right-wing nutjob. Not that these stations aren't more left-leaning; it's the absolutely ridiculous suggestion that every single person working at MSNBC and CNN is a trusted Obama loyalist, that there are zero Republicans working anywhere in their ranks.
Then the capper:
"This is about the Marxist takeover of America"
In a country where corporations are clearly calling more and more of the shots, they want us to believe MARXISTS are taking over?
Serious crimes have been committed. Snowden wasn't part of them.
The problem with his position is that his leak included no actual documenting of those crimes; no details about what information was obtained, if any of it was obtained on a US citizen without a warrant, or who authorized/oversaw it. It sure as hell *sounds* bad but none of it is specific enough to force a "house cleaning".
If as you say the whistleblower provided no supporting documentation and only his allegations... what possible grounds are there for extradition?
A charge of simply "trash-talking/slandering former employer" doesn't pass the smell test, and would run afoul of the 1st amendment (for what little that's worth these days).
The best part is that by accepting your cheap plastic kazoo you're also signing away any other legal recourse you may have had.
Not quite. The best part (if my notice of the Sony PSN class action settlement is typical) is that by not explicitly excluding yourself from the settlement (i.e. even if you take no action to claim the cheap plastic kazoo), you're giving up any further legal recourse you may have.
You're in a contract by choice, though. We are not in a contract; we bought unlocked phones.
Given the automatic unlocking provision coming up, I might just get subsidized phones again
If there's no BYOD discount, it might still worth it to buy unsubsidized. Unlocking isn't free (wording of code made sure of that), and right now it's $35 for Telus, $50 for Rogers and a whopping $75 ripoff for Bell. Expect these to rise very soon.
(afterthought: realistically, of course, they'll just cut your service after you hit your overage cap)
And that to me is *perfectly fine*. Send a text message alert as soon as they hit the user's monthly data plan, and have data shut down by default once you're $50 over. This way the unwitting user (which this part of the carrier code of conduct is for--iPhone data leakages, forgot to turn roaming off, etc) knows they've hit or are approaching their limit in real-time and make a relatively informed decision, not a month or two later when they get the bill and have to waste several hours fighting it. Mistakes do happen, on the carrier side too--during one dispute, a friend allegedly accumulated another 4 GB of data in a 2 day period... even though her phone was off! They eventually backed off from all overage charges.
This part of the code is not an open invitation to use as a data buffet. Data for smartphones has never been unlimited in Canada, unlike AT&T in the US, so at least on this point the carriers aren't reneging on any past promise of unlimited data.
Incidentally, I don't know what is so popular about bitching endlessly as a response to any attempt to modernize the United States. It's the 21st Century. If it were 1900, you'd be arguing that electricity wasn't as safe as kerosene. It's time to join the rest of the world and stop hanging on to these meaningless bits of quickly aging tradition. Who cares if my car runs on electricity instead of gas? If it gets me to work and home five ways a week and to dinner on the weekends and we could build them in American factories and provide more jobs by converting gas stations into electric stations and at the same time probably solve the smog/asthma problems plaguing major metropolitan areas, what is the problem?
Every country has at least one weird character flaw. One of the US's is the effective resistance to any and all change to "how things are", and come up with all kinds of excuses why the change is an unnecessary hardship for them, the economy, and cute furry kittens. The metric system, the dollar coin, hell there's bitching over adding colour to paper money because they'd no longer be "greenbacks" and they look like Monopoly money!
Sure, other countries have people who resist change, the difference is the American people conflating government-mandated change as government "intrusion" into their lives. And yet, they let the true intrusions slip by, like Homeland Security and TSA expanding their reach, constitutional violations, etc.
I don't like domain squatters, but that's an amazingly good point. If any of the ardent backers of draconian intellectual (or "imaginary") property rights ever raises a dispute about a domain name they want, this should be thrown in their faces.
You still have people arguing against using year-month-day format, even in cases where its date-sorting advantages should be brain-dead obvious. It's no surprise to me that some committee screwed up the order of domain name elements.
People have short memories, but it is just possible that the Conservatives will piss off enough people by the next election. They're already alienating their hard-right religious base by not re-opening the abortion debate in any way, shape or form (not because the prime minister is pro-choice, but because he knows his party is toast if they do). Anti-abortion advocates went as far as mailing flyers denouncing Harper in his own riding. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
The Conservative attack ads against the new Liberal leader are also backfiring--the Liberals (and the charity the ads attacked by association) haven't seen this level of donations in years.
As for a possible housing market collapse, I predict there won't be a US-style collapse, but it will see a significant downturn between now and the election. In the national capital, there are new, expensive condos being built (or completed) left right and centre... but the historically steady (or growing) number of people they depend on to buy them are disappearing, because of significant cuts to federal government jobs.
Of course, Ottawa isn't the whole country, but the major cities where mainland Chinese are gobbling up properties as foreign investments have a different problem--the housing market is becoming too expensive for locals to buy into.
Some of the government job cuts can be justified... except the Conservatives are wasting millions to create an entirely new and utterly pointless Office of Religious Freedom, with all the bureaucracy that brings.
They more or less have this where I live--at least if it's more than one lane each direction. As you approach the intersection, the dividing line between lanes goes from broken (can change lanes) to solid (lane changes prohibited). The point at which these become solid is roughly yellow time multiplied by speed limit, under ideal driving conditions. AFAIK this isn't officially mentioned anywhere, because people will use that as a rule rather than a guide, even if it's raining or snowing, and ignoring their own vehicle's braking characteristics. It's pretty consistently accurate though, whether it's 40, 60 or 80 km/h.
One thing stopped me using Google+ more when it was the rage a couple years ago: lack of an events calendar.
At the time you needed a separate calendar account and then tie it to Plus. I had zero desire to do this. I logged in recently and IIRC this is no longer required, but it was a huge momentum killer among my circle(s) of friends.
I had this for awhile after cutting TV portion of the cable bill, but keeping internet. Eventually they put on something that was enough to leave all the basic channels as snow.
Which was fine. I can still get the 4 or 5 key channels over the air (the very same channels I was limited to until 2005, when I moved out of my parents' place). I'm not even sure a Netflix subscription is needed, in the last two months I've turned the TV on less than ten times.
Does this work when family members with TVs in different rooms all want to watch something different? Or would each nettop PC need a separate computer running XBMC?
Not that I advocate a TV in every kid's bedroom, in fact just the opposite, but it's a definite and common use case.
This is a bad indicator for MSFT right here as you haven't been able to get non Windows X86 from the mainstream OEMs since OS/2 was canceled because to do so was the kiss of death.
Except netbooks. Which, in a way, is another solid example of Microsoft losing their their shit. Having to keep XP "alive" for a few extra years maybe did a bit to hobble Vista growth.
A great example of winning the battle (cheap Windows netbooks almost totally replaced Linux ones on store shelves) but losing the war (iOS and Android devices destroyed the netbook market and is eating away at the traditional PC/laptop market).
On the other hand, Microsoft is making money off of Android device sales thanks to patent royalties...
I was beginning to think I was the only one who thought that. It was the only ST series, to me, that seemed even remotely realistic. All the others were set in some bullshit socialist utopia where no one needed or wanted money; the Federation was a bunch of flawless boy scouts; greed, lust, deceit, and religion were nonexistent; and no one thought it even remotely strange that crewmen were bringing their families aboard battleships. The characters on DS9 felt much more like real human beings (and aliens).
If Gene Roddenberry had stuck with "remotely realistic", the original series wouldn't have had Japanese, Russian, and black officers (a *female* black officer, even!) on the Federation flagship. Gene Roddenberry specifically wanted to portray a human society that was more idealistic, and had left some of the "realistic" baggage behind. And despite having powerful weapons and shields, TNG's Enterprise-D was not a battleship.
As for DS9, I enjoyed watching it, but you can thank Babylon 5 for DS9's going in a direction with far grittier and more "realistic" portrayal of human and alien society, warts and all.
People un-used to city traffic probably DO have to concentrate 100% on driving.
However this is not the norm for most people. You can drive down the freeway in light to moderate traffic and not have much of your conscious brain involved at all. You can arrive at your destination and not recall a single thing about the trip.
we have the Octopus card in Hong Kong which works for convenience stores, subway and other transportation fees, and some retailers like Starbucks or our local supermarkets. it can only be topped up to 500HKD($64.43USD) at any convenience store or subway station and is anonymous.
While the card itself isn't linked to you by name and so can be passed around, wouldn't paying for the top-up require credit card or some other electronic funds transfer which could be linked to you (or someone close to you if they're topping it up)?
I suppose you could withdraw $500HKD in actual cash, then use that to pay for the top-up, but that kind of defeats the purpose of these cards...
I get charged $0.50 when I use my debit card. So I never use it as debit.
I get 10 or 20 "free" debits a month, but never use debit except in emergencies. With debit, your cash is transferred out almost immediately. With credit, it's moved later. In theory, you'd get disputes resolved much easier if the merchant doesn't already have your cash.
I think that term has been diluted from the original outrageous ratings grabbing event, to simply mean something is past its prime.
As I noted in another comment, neither was true--the ending of the epic war to deal with more mundane matters back home was just bound to deflate a lot of people.
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Aside from CPU upgradability, the 6 Thunderbolt ports means that this particular Mac Pro is the single most expandable Mac on the planet.
You can add a TON of PCIe expansion boxes to give you a ton of slots as needed, including additional graphics cards, RAID cards, etc.
PCIe expansion boxes are fine for many things including storage. Even PCIe flash and RAID, since only a few seem able to come close to the maximum 20 Gb/s (2.5 GB/s) per channel of a single Thunderbolt 2 port. Extremely high-end RAID or Fusion IO PCIe drive that can hit read speeds of 7 GB/s (assuming this isn't a misleading marketing number), sure that's an issue, but this is probably an edge case--how often do you need that for a single desktop, and are there internal options anyway?
For graphics though, a mobile-class 2012 GPU's host/device data rate was benchmarked at 4-6 GB/s (32 Gb/s+), so I believe external PCIe is a poor option for any video card that's halfway decent.
Yes, because we must find some minor detail, irrelevant to the point of the story, spoken in a hurried, frightened, clandestine meeting, with which to discredit and dismiss the entire thing. Standard PSYOPS response.
It means the source has very strong preconceived notions to start off with. And it is not "some minor detail". Thinking that all of MSNBC or CNN are immune is absolutely ridiculous, and calls into question the source's credibility since he's seeing things that might not be there... or deliberately glossing over things that *are* there. I had been giving the article the benefit of the doubt up to that point, because Obama and his administration (and the rest of the system on top of that, Republican and Democrat alike) have sunk that far.
Because we know that the reference to Marxism was meant in an exclusively literal textbook manner and not at all as a rough description of the manner and methods employed, so it's perfectly logical to entirely dismiss and ridicule anything that might imply government wrongdoing.
A lot of bad things are happening. Some of the stuff the source talked about may indeed be happening. I'm not dismissing it outright.
But the credibility score for anyone goes in the tank whenever the Marxist label is applied to Obama. You can get away with calling Obama leftist or even socialist. Going further than that is like calling Bush Jr. a Nazi. They're both extremely loaded terms that you'd damn well better be sure about before using.
How much do they pay you? Or have you drank so much koolaid that you do it for free? Are you hoping to land a job as an Interment-Resettlement Specialist when the SHTF?
Do you play the paid tool and/or koolaid card on anyone who disagrees with you?
I had no idea what CanadaFreePress was and went in with an open mind. I dug deeper up after the phrasing in the article tipped me off. It has as much an agenda as MSNBC, CNN, except on the side of Fox News.
Did CanadaFreePress or the Republican party pay YOU to repost their article, or have YOU drank so much koolaid that you did it for free?
It's a sad day when an American has to go to China for Sanctuary for reporting violations of the Bill of Rights.
No shit. It's like living in some kind of "Homeland" or other dystopian-future-themed computer game.
I guess the old "reality is stranger than fiction" truism still stands.
Maybe China or Russia will actually end up sending arms and funding to a future American resistance movement like the US has been doing around the world regarding rebels fighting against unfriendly regimes for many decades.
Interesting times, indeed. More than a bit surreal as well.
And it may be a lot closer than most think. http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/55749
I admit, they told a good story. They had me going up until this bit: "This administration is collecting names of sources, whistle blowers and their families, names of media sources and everybody they talk to and have talked to, and they already have a huge list. If you’re not working for MSNBC or CNN, you’re probably on that list"
The MSNBC and CNN bit is a tired and obvious giveaway of a right-wing nutjob. Not that these stations aren't more left-leaning; it's the absolutely ridiculous suggestion that every single person working at MSNBC and CNN is a trusted Obama loyalist, that there are zero Republicans working anywhere in their ranks.
Then the capper:
"This is about the Marxist takeover of America"
In a country where corporations are clearly calling more and more of the shots, they want us to believe MARXISTS are taking over?
And if it turns out that he just blew what might have prevented several 9/11 level attacks?
Freedom is more important than security, drone.
Not to the majority of American people, apparently. They say they do, they may even think they do, but (in)actions speak louder than words.
Serious crimes have been committed. Snowden wasn't part of them.
The problem with his position is that his leak included no actual documenting of those crimes; no details about what information was obtained, if any of it was obtained on a US citizen without a warrant, or who authorized/oversaw it. It sure as hell *sounds* bad but none of it is specific enough to force a "house cleaning".
If as you say the whistleblower provided no supporting documentation and only his allegations... what possible grounds are there for extradition?
A charge of simply "trash-talking/slandering former employer" doesn't pass the smell test, and would run afoul of the 1st amendment (for what little that's worth these days).
The best part is that by accepting your cheap plastic kazoo you're also signing away any other legal recourse you may have had.
Not quite. The best part (if my notice of the Sony PSN class action settlement is typical) is that by not explicitly excluding yourself from the settlement (i.e. even if you take no action to claim the cheap plastic kazoo), you're giving up any further legal recourse you may have.
You're in a contract by choice, though. We are not in a contract; we bought unlocked phones.
Given the automatic unlocking provision coming up, I might just get subsidized phones again
If there's no BYOD discount, it might still worth it to buy unsubsidized. Unlocking isn't free (wording of code made sure of that), and right now it's $35 for Telus, $50 for Rogers and a whopping $75 ripoff for Bell. Expect these to rise very soon.
(afterthought: realistically, of course, they'll just cut your service after you hit your overage cap)
And that to me is *perfectly fine*. Send a text message alert as soon as they hit the user's monthly data plan, and have data shut down by default once you're $50 over. This way the unwitting user (which this part of the carrier code of conduct is for--iPhone data leakages, forgot to turn roaming off, etc) knows they've hit or are approaching their limit in real-time and make a relatively informed decision, not a month or two later when they get the bill and have to waste several hours fighting it. Mistakes do happen, on the carrier side too--during one dispute, a friend allegedly accumulated another 4 GB of data in a 2 day period... even though her phone was off! They eventually backed off from all overage charges.
This part of the code is not an open invitation to use as a data buffet. Data for smartphones has never been unlimited in Canada, unlike AT&T in the US, so at least on this point the carriers aren't reneging on any past promise of unlimited data.
Incidentally, I don't know what is so popular about bitching endlessly as a response to any attempt to modernize the United States. It's the 21st Century. If it were 1900, you'd be arguing that electricity wasn't as safe as kerosene. It's time to join the rest of the world and stop hanging on to these meaningless bits of quickly aging tradition. Who cares if my car runs on electricity instead of gas? If it gets me to work and home five ways a week and to dinner on the weekends and we could build them in American factories and provide more jobs by converting gas stations into electric stations and at the same time probably solve the smog/asthma problems plaguing major metropolitan areas, what is the problem?
Every country has at least one weird character flaw. One of the US's is the effective resistance to any and all change to "how things are", and come up with all kinds of excuses why the change is an unnecessary hardship for them, the economy, and cute furry kittens. The metric system, the dollar coin, hell there's bitching over adding colour to paper money because they'd no longer be "greenbacks" and they look like Monopoly money!
Sure, other countries have people who resist change, the difference is the American people conflating government-mandated change as government "intrusion" into their lives. And yet, they let the true intrusions slip by, like Homeland Security and TSA expanding their reach, constitutional violations, etc.
Wow. Great way to be above the partisan ship. You can't even restrain yourself from the "Faux" talking point.
He immediately acknowledged his inherent bias, and then says what's being done is not right even if it's against something he despises.
I say he got his point across perfectly.
I don't like domain squatters, but that's an amazingly good point. If any of the ardent backers of draconian intellectual (or "imaginary") property rights ever raises a dispute about a domain name they want, this should be thrown in their faces.
You still have people arguing against using year-month-day format, even in cases where its date-sorting advantages should be brain-dead obvious. It's no surprise to me that some committee screwed up the order of domain name elements.
People have short memories, but it is just possible that the Conservatives will piss off enough people by the next election. They're already alienating their hard-right religious base by not re-opening the abortion debate in any way, shape or form (not because the prime minister is pro-choice, but because he knows his party is toast if they do). Anti-abortion advocates went as far as mailing flyers denouncing Harper in his own riding. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
The Conservative attack ads against the new Liberal leader are also backfiring--the Liberals (and the charity the ads attacked by association) haven't seen this level of donations in years.
As for a possible housing market collapse, I predict there won't be a US-style collapse, but it will see a significant downturn between now and the election. In the national capital, there are new, expensive condos being built (or completed) left right and centre... but the historically steady (or growing) number of people they depend on to buy them are disappearing, because of significant cuts to federal government jobs.
Of course, Ottawa isn't the whole country, but the major cities where mainland Chinese are gobbling up properties as foreign investments have a different problem--the housing market is becoming too expensive for locals to buy into.
Some of the government job cuts can be justified... except the Conservatives are wasting millions to create an entirely new and utterly pointless Office of Religious Freedom, with all the bureaucracy that brings.
They more or less have this where I live--at least if it's more than one lane each direction. As you approach the intersection, the dividing line between lanes goes from broken (can change lanes) to solid (lane changes prohibited). The point at which these become solid is roughly yellow time multiplied by speed limit, under ideal driving conditions. AFAIK this isn't officially mentioned anywhere, because people will use that as a rule rather than a guide, even if it's raining or snowing, and ignoring their own vehicle's braking characteristics. It's pretty consistently accurate though, whether it's 40, 60 or 80 km/h.
One thing stopped me using Google+ more when it was the rage a couple years ago: lack of an events calendar.
At the time you needed a separate calendar account and then tie it to Plus. I had zero desire to do this. I logged in recently and IIRC this is no longer required, but it was a huge momentum killer among my circle(s) of friends.
I had this for awhile after cutting TV portion of the cable bill, but keeping internet. Eventually they put on something that was enough to leave all the basic channels as snow.
Which was fine. I can still get the 4 or 5 key channels over the air (the very same channels I was limited to until 2005, when I moved out of my parents' place). I'm not even sure a Netflix subscription is needed, in the last two months I've turned the TV on less than ten times.
Does this work when family members with TVs in different rooms all want to watch something different? Or would each nettop PC need a separate computer running XBMC?
Not that I advocate a TV in every kid's bedroom, in fact just the opposite, but it's a definite and common use case.
Except netbooks. Which, in a way, is another solid example of Microsoft losing their their shit. Having to keep XP "alive" for a few extra years maybe did a bit to hobble Vista growth.
A great example of winning the battle (cheap Windows netbooks almost totally replaced Linux ones on store shelves) but losing the war (iOS and Android devices destroyed the netbook market and is eating away at the traditional PC/laptop market).
On the other hand, Microsoft is making money off of Android device sales thanks to patent royalties...
DS9 was the best ST series
I was beginning to think I was the only one who thought that. It was the only ST series, to me, that seemed even remotely realistic. All the others were set in some bullshit socialist utopia where no one needed or wanted money; the Federation was a bunch of flawless boy scouts; greed, lust, deceit, and religion were nonexistent; and no one thought it even remotely strange that crewmen were bringing their families aboard battleships. The characters on DS9 felt much more like real human beings (and aliens).
If Gene Roddenberry had stuck with "remotely realistic", the original series wouldn't have had Japanese, Russian, and black officers (a *female* black officer, even!) on the Federation flagship. Gene Roddenberry specifically wanted to portray a human society that was more idealistic, and had left some of the "realistic" baggage behind. And despite having powerful weapons and shields, TNG's Enterprise-D was not a battleship.
As for DS9, I enjoyed watching it, but you can thank Babylon 5 for DS9's going in a direction with far grittier and more "realistic" portrayal of human and alien society, warts and all.
People un-used to city traffic probably DO have to concentrate 100% on driving.
However this is not the norm for most people. You can drive down the freeway in light to moderate traffic and not have much of your conscious brain involved at all. You can arrive at your destination and not recall a single thing about the trip.
It's even possible to hit a moose on the highway and drive another 40km without noticing your injuries or the severe damage to the car.
we have the Octopus card in Hong Kong which works for convenience stores, subway and other transportation fees, and some retailers like Starbucks or our local supermarkets. it can only be topped up to 500HKD($64.43USD) at any convenience store or subway station and is anonymous.
While the card itself isn't linked to you by name and so can be passed around, wouldn't paying for the top-up require credit card or some other electronic funds transfer which could be linked to you (or someone close to you if they're topping it up)?
I suppose you could withdraw $500HKD in actual cash, then use that to pay for the top-up, but that kind of defeats the purpose of these cards...
I get charged $0.50 when I use my debit card. So I never use it as debit.
I get 10 or 20 "free" debits a month, but never use debit except in emergencies. With debit, your cash is transferred out almost immediately. With credit, it's moved later. In theory, you'd get disputes resolved much easier if the merchant doesn't already have your cash.
As long as you don't try to convince me sports that consist to 99% of standing around is actually fun.
Like golf...
I think that term has been diluted from the original outrageous ratings grabbing event, to simply mean something is past its prime.
As I noted in another comment, neither was true--the ending of the epic war to deal with more mundane matters back home was just bound to deflate a lot of people.
The best episode of season 5 in my opinion was "Day of the Dead."
JMS - If Ivonava had been on season 5 of Babylon 5, which previously deceased character would have visited her: Marcus, or Talia?
"Yes"
- Kosh