But if the next season never gets produced, how will we know if Captain Archer is successful in getting these worlds together to form the Federation? You can't just end a series on a cliffhanger like that without knowing what's going to happen, it'll kill us!! It'll be worse than the ending of Party of Five.:-(
On the plus side I'm looking forward to never having to watch UPN again. UPN will be as worthless as the WB network and probably devolve into showing nothing but african-american targetted sitcoms like Moesha.
Now you will be forcing more people to move over to Linux and Mac computers!!!
You know, it's amazing that this company stays in business. I definitely will be buying a Mac for my next desktop (already have an iBook) and as long as Apple doesn't implement similar "activation" crap in their OS I will continue to be a fan of OS X.
The sad thing is I have several legitimate copies of Windows XP Pro at home that activated on the hardware and this kind of crap makes me feel like a criminal if I do something crazy like have to replace a motherboard or upgrade my RAM or CPU. Frankly I don't need Microsoft deciding when or where my operating system should stop working because they consider my upgraded computer an entirely new system. Screw that. I'll spend $2000 and buy a Mac before I spend $200 on another fscking copy of Windows XP Pro for an upgraded system.
Er... the voting machines were completely insecure. Anybody could have tampered with the votes, not just Diebold. Diebold is merely the organisation whose negligence made it possible.
Yet the implication is that there was an organized conspiracy to employ Diebold to defraud the public. That is simply false.
The government actually should have a Certification Authority freely (or some nominal fee) available to its citizens.
Hell, I'd be happy if the government just had a trusted CA available freely to government agencies! We spend tens of thousands of dollars a year on Verisign certificates. What a waste of taxpayer dollars when it would be trivial to get Microsoft and Mozilla to add a federal government CA certificate into their trusted list.
Lastly, they also get all that sweet, sweet tv datamining. The data tivo collects makes the Neilson system look like 1950's technology.
That's something I've always been amazed the average TiVo user doesn't have a problem with, especially those here at Slashdot. You're paying a monthly service fee and on top of that, agreeing to let some company monitor your usage. You KNOW this is happening because TiVo could give exact statistics on how many people rewound and paused on Janet Jackson's breast last year. Either make it a pay service and respect people's privacy by not gathering statistics or support if via selling those statistics and providing the service for free... not both. I'm sure the TiVo apologists will emerge soon to defend their baby to the death. They're worse than Amiga and Mac zealots.
This is what you get for not rioting in the streets when they announced that companies like Diebold were 'counting' your stinking votes.
Nice troll, but it's not like the votes were shipped off to Diebold headquarters to be counted in secret by their CEO. If there was a conspiracy to defraud voters it would've never stayed secret in such a large company. Not everyone at Diebold is a conservative you know.
DVD Shrink is your friend. Most movies are at most 6 gigs with the rest of the disc filled with menus and other useless crap. I can almost always fit a backup of a movie on a single 4.7GB DVD-R with less than 20% re-compression.
Or the first 2 seasons of Six Feet Under which you can find on DVD.
On the other hand, any decent series worth watching on TV is probably out on DVD now anyway. You can just pick up the entire set commercial free in excellent quality without worrying about recording it or storing it somewhere on a hard drive.
I figure that the Cable companies are going to move very quickly in this arena.
My cable company (WideOpenWest) began offering PVR service so I ordered it to see how it compared to my MythTV. To say I was disappointed was an understatement. Other than being able to record digital pay channels without needing an IR blaster the thing was basically useless. It crashed constantly and was nothing more than a glorified VCR. It was a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 something or other. Piece of crap! To top it all off, the one saving grace that it may have had, a firewire port, was disabled.
You must run nothing but Microsoft Office all day then. People that actually run non-Microsoft programs on their Windows XP boxes are the ones having the problems. Not that I care anymore since I have a PowerMac G5 now. It's so warm and soft.
BF1942 Desert Combat mod crashes to the desktop everytime I try to run it under Windows XP SP2. I uninstalled SP2 immediately and DC works great. Considering that is the only game I ever play anymore, SP2 is not in my future I suppose. It's a shame Microsoft can't produce a patch that doesn't break so many programs.
Those sites are broken then. No site should *require* Javascript. But whatever, continue your ignorance and browsing with Javascript enabled, just stop bitching about popups when they're a simple way to disable them.
Except you're not using land, you're stealing service which, after 5 years, would amount to a hefty felony. Welcome to federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison boy. Stay the fuck off networks that don't belong to you. Kids these days have absolutely zero god damn respect for other people's property or services.
One more thing: I am not a Dell fanboy, but Macs are expensive.
$3000 for a good quality high-end computer isn't that expensive. That's about how much high end systems have always cost throughout the years. Hell, a new top of the line PowerMac is probably cheaper than the IBM AT when it was first released. When you factor in the cost of the PowerMac over the 4-6 year lifespan it'll see on your desktop it's not that expensive.
My PowerMac G5 is really no less quiet than any of the other PCs I use. In fact, once I actually start doing anything intensive with it the fans speed up and it sounds like the home gaming system (with tons of fans in it running at full speed all the time). Now, maybe an iMac is quieter, but the tower is definitely loud.
Yeah, I remember back in 2002 or so, I saw an ad for a job requring 5 years experience with Windows2000.
Just because you don't have 5 years worth of skills with Windows 2000 doesn't mean someone else doesn't. For example, I have 25 years of Linux experience. They never check that shit and you always look better than the next guy who only has 10 years of experience.
Just get a Hauppauge WinTV PVR250 card. They work fine. HDTV is overrated... I don't expect it to take off. Other than high resolution Janet Jackson boobies, what's the point? Survivor in high definition? Who cares how good the picture is if the content sucks?
I suppose it's only a matter of time til the chinese government learns what most people already know. If more than a few people know a piece of information, then it's pretty hopeless to try to contain it.
Now if only the RIAA/MPAA would learn this lesson.
Or more importantly, if only President Bush would learn this lesson. There's no putting the nuclear genie back in the bottle. Diplomacy is the only answer to dealing with nuclear nations like China and North Korea. Sabre-rattling will only result in disaster.
One of my parents may have had their identity stolen in this incident. I sure hope not, but in any case... what now? What can be done to prevent the stolen numbers from being used illegitimately?
Nothing. It's a stupid system, but it's all we've got. Your SSN is a secret password that holds the key to your credit and identity, but thousands of people already know it. Sleep tight.
Just let it die! Enterprise was doomed from the beginning. At least we have the new BSG now - there is really no need for Enterprise anymore.
I tried to watch Battlestar Galactica.. I set my MythTV box to tape it and I got about 5 or 6 hours of them during the day on Friday on Sci-Fi. I didn't even think Lorne Greene was still alive for Christ's sake.. I can't believe they dragged him out of retirement for this shithole of a show. And Dirk Benedict!? WTF has he done since the A-Team? All in all, BSG sucked ass. Enterprise was much better IMHO. BSG had a very 1970's feel to it that just seemed cheesy. Class A crap. You people are all on crack if you think BSG is any good. Long live Star Trek!!!!
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On the plus side I'm looking forward to never having to watch UPN again. UPN will be as worthless as the WB network and probably devolve into showing nothing but african-american targetted sitcoms like Moesha.
You know, it's amazing that this company stays in business. I definitely will be buying a Mac for my next desktop (already have an iBook) and as long as Apple doesn't implement similar "activation" crap in their OS I will continue to be a fan of OS X.
The sad thing is I have several legitimate copies of Windows XP Pro at home that activated on the hardware and this kind of crap makes me feel like a criminal if I do something crazy like have to replace a motherboard or upgrade my RAM or CPU. Frankly I don't need Microsoft deciding when or where my operating system should stop working because they consider my upgraded computer an entirely new system. Screw that. I'll spend $2000 and buy a Mac before I spend $200 on another fscking copy of Windows XP Pro for an upgraded system.
Yet the implication is that there was an organized conspiracy to employ Diebold to defraud the public. That is simply false.
That's why God invented web proxies. Jesus later perfected the idea by adding caching to the system to save bandwidth. :-)
Hell, I'd be happy if the government just had a trusted CA available freely to government agencies! We spend tens of thousands of dollars a year on Verisign certificates. What a waste of taxpayer dollars when it would be trivial to get Microsoft and Mozilla to add a federal government CA certificate into their trusted list.
That's something I've always been amazed the average TiVo user doesn't have a problem with, especially those here at Slashdot. You're paying a monthly service fee and on top of that, agreeing to let some company monitor your usage. You KNOW this is happening because TiVo could give exact statistics on how many people rewound and paused on Janet Jackson's breast last year. Either make it a pay service and respect people's privacy by not gathering statistics or support if via selling those statistics and providing the service for free... not both. I'm sure the TiVo apologists will emerge soon to defend their baby to the death. They're worse than Amiga and Mac zealots.
Nice troll, but it's not like the votes were shipped off to Diebold headquarters to be counted in secret by their CEO. If there was a conspiracy to defraud voters it would've never stayed secret in such a large company. Not everyone at Diebold is a conservative you know.
Word-of-mouth is usually pretty good. You could always rent them. Lots of video stores have television shows these days, at least around here.
DVD Shrink is your friend. Most movies are at most 6 gigs with the rest of the disc filled with menus and other useless crap. I can almost always fit a backup of a movie on a single 4.7GB DVD-R with less than 20% re-compression.
On the other hand, any decent series worth watching on TV is probably out on DVD now anyway. You can just pick up the entire set commercial free in excellent quality without worrying about recording it or storing it somewhere on a hard drive.
My cable company (WideOpenWest) began offering PVR service so I ordered it to see how it compared to my MythTV. To say I was disappointed was an understatement. Other than being able to record digital pay channels without needing an IR blaster the thing was basically useless. It crashed constantly and was nothing more than a glorified VCR. It was a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 something or other. Piece of crap! To top it all off, the one saving grace that it may have had, a firewire port, was disabled.
You must run nothing but Microsoft Office all day then. People that actually run non-Microsoft programs on their Windows XP boxes are the ones having the problems. Not that I care anymore since I have a PowerMac G5 now. It's so warm and soft.
BF1942 Desert Combat mod crashes to the desktop everytime I try to run it under Windows XP SP2. I uninstalled SP2 immediately and DC works great. Considering that is the only game I ever play anymore, SP2 is not in my future I suppose. It's a shame Microsoft can't produce a patch that doesn't break so many programs.
Those sites are broken then. No site should *require* Javascript. But whatever, continue your ignorance and browsing with Javascript enabled, just stop bitching about popups when they're a simple way to disable them.
Except you're not using land, you're stealing service which, after 5 years, would amount to a hefty felony. Welcome to federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison boy. Stay the fuck off networks that don't belong to you. Kids these days have absolutely zero god damn respect for other people's property or services.
Turn off Javascript. No popups. No decent site should require Javascript anyway so it's no big deal.
$3000 for a good quality high-end computer isn't that expensive. That's about how much high end systems have always cost throughout the years. Hell, a new top of the line PowerMac is probably cheaper than the IBM AT when it was first released. When you factor in the cost of the PowerMac over the 4-6 year lifespan it'll see on your desktop it's not that expensive.
My PowerMac G5 is really no less quiet than any of the other PCs I use. In fact, once I actually start doing anything intensive with it the fans speed up and it sounds like the home gaming system (with tons of fans in it running at full speed all the time). Now, maybe an iMac is quieter, but the tower is definitely loud.
Just because you don't have 5 years worth of skills with Windows 2000 doesn't mean someone else doesn't. For example, I have 25 years of Linux experience. They never check that shit and you always look better than the next guy who only has 10 years of experience.
Just get a Hauppauge WinTV PVR250 card. They work fine. HDTV is overrated... I don't expect it to take off. Other than high resolution Janet Jackson boobies, what's the point? Survivor in high definition? Who cares how good the picture is if the content sucks?
Now if only the RIAA/MPAA would learn this lesson.
Or more importantly, if only President Bush would learn this lesson. There's no putting the nuclear genie back in the bottle. Diplomacy is the only answer to dealing with nuclear nations like China and North Korea. Sabre-rattling will only result in disaster.
Nothing. It's a stupid system, but it's all we've got. Your SSN is a secret password that holds the key to your credit and identity, but thousands of people already know it. Sleep tight.
I tried to watch Battlestar Galactica.. I set my MythTV box to tape it and I got about 5 or 6 hours of them during the day on Friday on Sci-Fi. I didn't even think Lorne Greene was still alive for Christ's sake.. I can't believe they dragged him out of retirement for this shithole of a show. And Dirk Benedict!? WTF has he done since the A-Team? All in all, BSG sucked ass. Enterprise was much better IMHO. BSG had a very 1970's feel to it that just seemed cheesy. Class A crap. You people are all on crack if you think BSG is any good. Long live Star Trek!!!!