I'm too far behind to get into any other series except for BSG and even then I'll spend the next few weeks trying to get the last 9 eps off bit torrent.
No problem. You'll eventually catch up when they cancel it midway through its second season.
The whole Xindi thing was the major reason I stopped watching Enterprise. If I wanted to watch the good guys hunt down terrorists, only to be foiled again and again, I can watch CNN.
You've missed some good plots since then this season though. Space Nazis brought me back to watching Enterprise every week. I love space Nazis... I loved them on TOS and I love them on Enterprise.
Then you had the cool arc with Data.. err... Noonian Soong... err well, I guess his great grandfather. Then the Vulcan arc was kind of interesting. I can't wait for Romulan wars.
At this level Gates is simply paying lip service to charity. He has over 40 *billion* in the bank. That's enough to end povery the world over... twice!
You math wizards really amaze me. $40 billion divided amongst 4 billion needy people is $10 each. That's a one time offer, once it's gone it's gone. Can you tell me that $10 will be enough for a poor person to live on the rest of their lives? Of course not. You guys are just like the farktards that were bitching that people weren't giving enough to the tsunami victims. ANYTHING is better than nothing. Stop looking a gift horse in the mouth or the next time people may reconsider donating period.
edu/org/com/net/gov/mil sites are all US. We are nice enough to let other people outside the United States register in these domains sometimes. We started the Internet so we get to use the legacy TLDs as our own. If you don't like it then you're free to go start your own root zone and try to get everyone to switch to it. Many have tried before and all have failed so we stick with the defacto standard with the USA as the center of the Internet universe and everyone else revolves around us. (no pun intended)
I use Opera, for one. And you don'thave to pay for it if you don't mind a small box of TEXT ads - not graphical, but text - in the upper right-hand corner.
I use Firefox and you don't have to pay for it either. You can even download the source code if you want and modify it. I'm just saying, why on earth would anyone still use a web browser you have to pay for (with either money for your eyeball on their ads, same thing to me) when there's dozens of free browsers out there that don't cost a penny and don't show any ads? Opera has nothing that I've seen that Firefox lacks.
Frankly, there are a number of businesses who really rely on this software and refuse to believe that they owe anything in return - money or code.
You don't owe anything in return, hence the term "free" software. We love free software and it saves us hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in maintenance and licensing costs that would've otherwise went to proprietary companies. The entire reason we're using free software is because it costs nothing, not because we are free to change the source code. Frankly we couldn't care less about modifying it as long as it's not buggy. If we had to pay for it then it'd make much more sense to buy it from a commercial vendor and get a support contract.
Of course this is fantastic news for Americans. It'll soon be affordable to move jobs back into the USA that were outsourced to Asia so more people will be employed in the manufacturing sector which will spur the economy which will drive the value of the dollar up which will cause companies to outsource jobs to Asia. F*CK.
I guess the audience and game play are simply different. I don't want to build a life in a game, nor do I want to compete against others doing the same. But I know many people who enjoy this type of game, and many can't stand the FPS games that I enjoy occasionally.
I guess that's what it comes down to. I couldn't see spending 4 or 5 hours a day playing the game enough to build up my character. I prefer to just jump in for some quick frags and get out an hour or so later. To each his own.
Coming from a FPS playing world I can't understand why people would ever pay to play multiplayer games. Why doesn't Blizzard just release the server code for Linux and Windows servers and let people run their own servers? They could have hundreds or thousands of them at zero cost to them and still make a killing selling the game. I played City of Heroes for a few months but began to realize that 3 months of subscription was ending up costing more than I paid for the damn game! It's just not worth it.
This is just another reason in a long list of why I should leave the U.S. and move somewhere more enlightened.
As my mother once said, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. That was approximately 48 hours before she called me up begging for computer help.;-)
That is why we pay extra for Apple hardware, so that we can rip out the unix with a nice interface, and replace it with the crappy unix wannabe with the shitty interface.
Chill out. Nobody is retarded enough to buy a Mac Mini to run Linux on. They are just trolling the Mac users.
BTW, if our mentally handicapped friends out there ARE thinking about getting a Mac Mini to run Linux on, save yourself the trouble and just get a Via EPIA board and case and build your own. It'd be cheaper, smaller, and run x86 Linux out of the box.
Probably not something you'd be able to do on your own unlike the memory and hard drive.
I don't understand that part. Why not just make a panel on the bottom that exposes the RAM and wireless slot like they have on iBooks under the keyboard? Also the hard drive should be on a slide-out tray like Dell notebooks use. You shouldn't have to disassemble your friggin computer to upgrade the RAM, hard drive or wireless card IMHO.
So, the $500 iMac... NO, not for you - your parents! Imagine XMAS dinner without having to run AdAware first...
I guess this must be pretty common. First thing I did on Christmas was clean up my mom's computer of viruses and spyware. She runs Spybot Search and Destroy every day but can't understand the concept of having to update the signatures. I wish it had an automatic update like AVG does for viruses. I'd buy her one of these Mac Minis in a heartbeat except the thing she uses 99% of the time isn't supported: Yahoo Messenger Voice Chat. To her that is the killer application. I could completely get rid of her Windows box if Macs supported Yahoo Messenger Voice Chat. Sounds silly doesn't it? She could use iChat, but all her friends use Yahoo Messenger so she refuses to switch.
Other companies could learn something from Apple's product support. Nothing breeds customer loyalty like standing behind your products.
On the other hand, other companies could learn something from Apple's mistakes with the G3 iBooks. I'm knocking on wood that my motherboard/video doesn't fail again since it'll be out of 3-year warranty in November and if it dies it basically goes in the trash. Time for a Powerbook anyway. Hopefully they don't have as many problems as my iBook G3 800MHz did. video lockups, backlight problem, power adapter dying, etc. It has been a nightmare of hardware problems, but the OS X is very nice.;-)
Next, explain to us how packets from computer A with ISP X on one side of the world, can possibly attack computer B with ISP Y on the other side of the world without going through at least two routers.
Computer A dials up with a modem and connects to ISP Y. ISP Y, being very small, uses a single Linux box as it's router and PPP dialup server, therefore you're only going through one router. pwn3d!
Of course, there are many many other contributors, but the main one is AOL, as many of the former members of the Netscape programming crew found homes in the Mozilla community. AOL likes to keep Mozilla/Netscape in their back pockets in case Microsoft royally screws them over. lol.
Naw, they fired all the former Netscape developers. The people working on Mozilla now do it out of love for the product. They gave some small amount to start the Mozilla Foundation, but they have no say in how it is run.
I have a feeling there will still be dorks lining up around the block in major metropolitan areas to see this the opening night. Anyone with a brain will either drive out to a more suburban theater or just wait a week until the horrible reviews roll in and people stop going to see it.
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No problem. You'll eventually catch up when they cancel it midway through its second season.
You've missed some good plots since then this season though. Space Nazis brought me back to watching Enterprise every week. I love space Nazis... I loved them on TOS and I love them on Enterprise.
Then you had the cool arc with Data.. err... Noonian Soong... err well, I guess his great grandfather. Then the Vulcan arc was kind of interesting. I can't wait for Romulan wars.
You math wizards really amaze me. $40 billion divided amongst 4 billion needy people is $10 each. That's a one time offer, once it's gone it's gone. Can you tell me that $10 will be enough for a poor person to live on the rest of their lives? Of course not. You guys are just like the farktards that were bitching that people weren't giving enough to the tsunami victims. ANYTHING is better than nothing. Stop looking a gift horse in the mouth or the next time people may reconsider donating period.
edu/org/com/net/gov/mil sites are all US. We are nice enough to let other people outside the United States register in these domains sometimes. We started the Internet so we get to use the legacy TLDs as our own. If you don't like it then you're free to go start your own root zone and try to get everyone to switch to it. Many have tried before and all have failed so we stick with the defacto standard with the USA as the center of the Internet universe and everyone else revolves around us. (no pun intended)
I use Firefox and you don't have to pay for it either. You can even download the source code if you want and modify it. I'm just saying, why on earth would anyone still use a web browser you have to pay for (with either money for your eyeball on their ads, same thing to me) when there's dozens of free browsers out there that don't cost a penny and don't show any ads? Opera has nothing that I've seen that Firefox lacks.
You don't owe anything in return, hence the term "free" software. We love free software and it saves us hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in maintenance and licensing costs that would've otherwise went to proprietary companies. The entire reason we're using free software is because it costs nothing, not because we are free to change the source code. Frankly we couldn't care less about modifying it as long as it's not buggy. If we had to pay for it then it'd make much more sense to buy it from a commercial vendor and get a support contract.
Internet Explorer has one giant glaring vulnerability going for it that was designed in from the beginning: ActiveX.
Who uses Opera anyway? Trying to sell a web browser is so 1997ish.
Of course this is fantastic news for Americans. It'll soon be affordable to move jobs back into the USA that were outsourced to Asia so more people will be employed in the manufacturing sector which will spur the economy which will drive the value of the dollar up which will cause companies to outsource jobs to Asia. F*CK.
I guess that's what it comes down to. I couldn't see spending 4 or 5 hours a day playing the game enough to build up my character. I prefer to just jump in for some quick frags and get out an hour or so later. To each his own.
Coming from a FPS playing world I can't understand why people would ever pay to play multiplayer games. Why doesn't Blizzard just release the server code for Linux and Windows servers and let people run their own servers? They could have hundreds or thousands of them at zero cost to them and still make a killing selling the game. I played City of Heroes for a few months but began to realize that 3 months of subscription was ending up costing more than I paid for the damn game! It's just not worth it.
That seems kind of a wacky universe. Why can't they cluster all these servers together and create one uniform universe?
As my mother once said, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. That was approximately 48 hours before she called me up begging for computer help. ;-)
Chill out. Nobody is retarded enough to buy a Mac Mini to run Linux on. They are just trolling the Mac users.
BTW, if our mentally handicapped friends out there ARE thinking about getting a Mac Mini to run Linux on, save yourself the trouble and just get a Via EPIA board and case and build your own. It'd be cheaper, smaller, and run x86 Linux out of the box.
I don't understand that part. Why not just make a panel on the bottom that exposes the RAM and wireless slot like they have on iBooks under the keyboard? Also the hard drive should be on a slide-out tray like Dell notebooks use. You shouldn't have to disassemble your friggin computer to upgrade the RAM, hard drive or wireless card IMHO.
I guess this must be pretty common. First thing I did on Christmas was clean up my mom's computer of viruses and spyware. She runs Spybot Search and Destroy every day but can't understand the concept of having to update the signatures. I wish it had an automatic update like AVG does for viruses. I'd buy her one of these Mac Minis in a heartbeat except the thing she uses 99% of the time isn't supported: Yahoo Messenger Voice Chat. To her that is the killer application. I could completely get rid of her Windows box if Macs supported Yahoo Messenger Voice Chat. Sounds silly doesn't it? She could use iChat, but all her friends use Yahoo Messenger so she refuses to switch.
On the other hand, other companies could learn something from Apple's mistakes with the G3 iBooks. I'm knocking on wood that my motherboard/video doesn't fail again since it'll be out of 3-year warranty in November and if it dies it basically goes in the trash. Time for a Powerbook anyway. Hopefully they don't have as many problems as my iBook G3 800MHz did. video lockups, backlight problem, power adapter dying, etc. It has been a nightmare of hardware problems, but the OS X is very nice. ;-)
They didn't care that I left non-Apple RAM in my iBook when I shipped it in for repair several times.
What the hell are you talking about? Did Apple ever claim it was waterproof?
IBM is our friend. IBM has always been our friend. Microsoft is the enemy Winston.
When's the last time you saw him? He'll probably turn up somewhere. I lost my car keys once and I found them in my winter coat pocket.
Computer A dials up with a modem and connects to ISP Y. ISP Y, being very small, uses a single Linux box as it's router and PPP dialup server, therefore you're only going through one router. pwn3d!
Oh noes!.11! Not the RFC-ignorant list. I imagine 95% of the servers out there do not listen on port 587/tcp.
Naw, they fired all the former Netscape developers. The people working on Mozilla now do it out of love for the product. They gave some small amount to start the Mozilla Foundation, but they have no say in how it is run.
I have a feeling there will still be dorks lining up around the block in major metropolitan areas to see this the opening night. Anyone with a brain will either drive out to a more suburban theater or just wait a week until the horrible reviews roll in and people stop going to see it.