Did I say I was an expert on either the show or Chris? Hell I didn't even know how to spell his last name. All I know is the day he started working on a trendy TV show was the day I stopped following him.
I post the same thing this guy does except earlier and containing the word "racist". He gets insightful, I get flamebait. Great irony. If anything, parent is redundant, and I'm insightful. =p
Before I get modded into oblivion for this, you must understand that I speak from experience. Not trolling here.
Screensavers got a lot of it's popularity from a guy named Chris who founded the now widely popular Lockergnome newsletter and newsgroup. Chris may have even helped found the show. I'm not sure. But I know he appeared on it as a regular cast member in it's earlier stages. The man sold his relative internet fame to make an assload of cash doing a TV show where you just impress stupid people with obvious things like "hidden options" in Windows or "neat apps" on the web.
Putting this in perspective, imagine how betrayed you'd feel in Rob Malda started doing a TV show directed at the non-tech savvy in which he stated nothing but obvious crap. Lots of us old Lockergnome fans were disgusted with Screensavers from day one. Therefore, I will not miss it's departure.
Are you racist or something? Your post leaves me with the distinct impression that you believe Asians pirate more software and get more viruses than the rest of the world which is just false.
Most people sharing these days operate behind massive community networks. You get as far their community IP address and stop there. There could be as many as thousands of people behind that single IP. Makes it hard for *AA to get a positive lock on who's sharing behind it.
It would be nice if the work done in this forked project could be eventually integrated into Adium, seeing as how it's based off of GAIM's source. My one regret of switching from iChat to Adium is it's lack of "vv". So if I want to do some "vv" I have to switch back to iChat.
First paragraph offtopic. I've seen every episode of Trek since The Cage and I eagerly await today's Enterprise new episode "Damage" with glee. But despite having seen close to a thousand episodes of Trek, I'm at a loss for words trying to come up with a good Ferengi joke! So I'll just be serious instead.
People hate tradition these days. The evidence is all around us. Religion becoming less popular, holidays and birthdays being chores and not celebrations, family reuinions being avoided, social events feared and loathed, etc, etc, etc.
So it's no surprise that the ceremony of marrying a man and a woman is being looked at the same way. People want to defy tradition. What better way to defy tradition than to get married in the most odd manner possible?
Of course many people are content to just get married without a ceremony, or with a tiny one. And some people are content to just follow tradition because they have nothing better to do.
Web programming is one of my larger hobbies. I've never used a premade script. I've coded everything I've ever done from scratch. It may not be as quick a solution as using a premade, but ACTUALLY CODING sure is a great way to make you a good programmer.:p
I always shudder whenever I see someone who claims to be a programmer running a website on Movable Type or something. Okay, maybe they're not a WEB programmer. But still!:)
How are those damn ring tones NOT annoying? "Hey look how cool I am with my 50 cent ring tone!"
Three words: The Imperial March.
It's the only cell phone ring tone, besides the default, that I actually respect. There's nothing like walking down the college campus and passing a guy then being startled when the imperial march unexpectedly begins emanating from his body.
You can never use IE and still get spyware. It's bundled in a lot of closed source free software for Windows. I had my parents running with Mozilla for months on a clean formatted installation of Win2k. When I ran an ad-aware scan later, they were inundated.
Badly worded, sure. No sense, nope. It seems (to me) like every time something "major" happens, a few months later we get report that "it could have been prevented if..." sort of thing. People get some kind of sense of security by attributing blame in great detail. Of course it could have been prevented if (x) or if (!y) or whatever. But it happened because (!x) or (y) and people act like we should all be telepaths and know this kind of crap beforehand.
They [Fedora] refuse to ship NTFS support, MP3 support, or NVidia support.
Here's why:
The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system
exclusively from free software.
When the GPL talks about free software, they're talking about 1. open source and 2. free from restrictions. It ships with no NTFS support because NTFS is not free software (nonfree filesystem).
They ship with no MP3 support because MP3 format is also not free software. You have to pay a royalty or something retarded to write programs to decode it. Granted most programs we use that decode them never payed such royalty, the law is still there. Even if everyone refuses to obey the law, it still exists.
Finally, they ship with no nvidia support because the nvidia driver from the company is not open source and therefore does not fit the GPL's definition of free software. You can still use your nvidia card using the nv driver, sans opengl.
Call this open source zealotry if you wish, but that's why they do it.
All the Final Fantasies, and many other RPGs, have excellent music. I classify it as "RPG music" which in my view far surpasses regular video game music classification. Comparing FF6 to Tetris is like comparing Mozart to trendy-MTV-of-the-day imho.
shouldn't we (American) Slashdotters be glad that Congress is discussing a law that increases civil penalties instead of making copyright infringement a criminal offense?
Uh, no. We should be disgusted that they're cooking up even more ways to enforce laws which are now unenforceable in modern day America. Technology advancements change what should and shouldn't be considered "intellectual property" and our laws haven't been keeping up. The constitution's view of copyright is hundreds of years old and obsolete. Something tells me the founding fathers would look at the way corporations are lobbying congress to reinterpret their words any way they please with considerable disgust.
Don't be a sheep.
"Think for yourself. Question authority." - Tool - Third Eye
See category "Supernatural Entity" / "Different Methods of Traveling Through Space"
That wasn't warp speed. That was something... else. Thanks to the Traveller guy there. Geordi was wrong. After all, it was a season 1 episode and they might not have decided on the warp factor scale yet at that point in time. Though I agree, that's no excuse. At best that classifies as a script error.
They weren't traveling at infinite velocity though, or even at "Warp". They were travelling ReallyFreakinFast(TM).
okay and believable when an alien entity does it? That is the dumbest fanboy excuse I've ever heard.
Only in Voy: Threshold has anything ever achieved infinite velocity. Even when invaders from the Andromeda galaxy in TOS modified Enterprise's engines to allow it to travel between galaxies, we're still traveling at a finite speed. Just because alien entities can get closer to the asymptote doesn't mean they can travel at infinite speed. So no. It's not okay when an alien entity does it because no alien entity has.
Read the whole thread. What you're talking about are exceptions which use different warp scales, entirely different methods of traveling through space, supernatural beings, or in some cases alternate realities created by supernatural beings. All of which is perfectly explained and believable. The only one that isn't is Voy: Threshold. It's the biggest stain on Trek since TOS: Miri.
Since everything in ST is a fantasy and has no basis in the physical world.
Actually, Trek has lots of basis in the physical world. All of the fictional concepts on the show are educated guesses at what future technology would be like. And if we forget that nothing can travel faster than light and accept the "Cochrane Equation" as a physical constant, Trek makes a lot of sense in terms of physics.
Bah. This is a bunch of crap. In the last episode of STTNG there is reference to Warp 13 (in the future Enterprise).
That episode was called "All Good Things" and that future was created by Q. Any number of things could explain the >10 warp factor that the episode features such as, but not limited to, Q being funny, or a different warp factor scale being in use.
Warp 10 is impossible. The warp scale represents speeds exponentially closer to infinity. According to the scale, 10 is the asymptote representing infinite speed. The single episode of Trek (Voy: Threshold) in which this feat is accomplished is often considered not canon by fans because the writer was a moron.
It should be noted that the man who wrote that episode never went on to write for Trek ever again. And it should also be noted that other episodes featuring warp factors of two digits were using a different scale.
Slashdot Mirror
Uh, why? It works perfectly fine without the 'Base64.' addition and Slashdot sig space is at a premium.
I ran Apache2 on my iBook for months without issues with PHP. I eventually pulled it though because performance was slower than 1.3.x.
Did I say I was an expert on either the show or Chris? Hell I didn't even know how to spell his last name. All I know is the day he started working on a trendy TV show was the day I stopped following him.
I post the same thing this guy does except earlier and containing the word "racist". He gets insightful, I get flamebait. Great irony. If anything, parent is redundant, and I'm insightful. =p
I disagree. I'm glad the show's getting canned.
Before I get modded into oblivion for this, you must understand that I speak from experience. Not trolling here.
Screensavers got a lot of it's popularity from a guy named Chris who founded the now widely popular Lockergnome newsletter and newsgroup. Chris may have even helped found the show. I'm not sure. But I know he appeared on it as a regular cast member in it's earlier stages. The man sold his relative internet fame to make an assload of cash doing a TV show where you just impress stupid people with obvious things like "hidden options" in Windows or "neat apps" on the web.
Putting this in perspective, imagine how betrayed you'd feel in Rob Malda started doing a TV show directed at the non-tech savvy in which he stated nothing but obvious crap. Lots of us old Lockergnome fans were disgusted with Screensavers from day one. Therefore, I will not miss it's departure.
Are you racist or something? Your post leaves me with the distinct impression that you believe Asians pirate more software and get more viruses than the rest of the world which is just false.
Most people sharing these days operate behind massive community networks. You get as far their community IP address and stop there. There could be as many as thousands of people behind that single IP. Makes it hard for *AA to get a positive lock on who's sharing behind it.
It would be nice if the work done in this forked project could be eventually integrated into Adium, seeing as how it's based off of GAIM's source. My one regret of switching from iChat to Adium is it's lack of "vv". So if I want to do some "vv" I have to switch back to iChat.
First paragraph offtopic. I've seen every episode of Trek since The Cage and I eagerly await today's Enterprise new episode "Damage" with glee. But despite having seen close to a thousand episodes of Trek, I'm at a loss for words trying to come up with a good Ferengi joke! So I'll just be serious instead.
People hate tradition these days. The evidence is all around us. Religion becoming less popular, holidays and birthdays being chores and not celebrations, family reuinions being avoided, social events feared and loathed, etc, etc, etc.
So it's no surprise that the ceremony of marrying a man and a woman is being looked at the same way. People want to defy tradition. What better way to defy tradition than to get married in the most odd manner possible?
Of course many people are content to just get married without a ceremony, or with a tiny one. And some people are content to just follow tradition because they have nothing better to do.
Web programming is one of my larger hobbies. I've never used a premade script. I've coded everything I've ever done from scratch. It may not be as quick a solution as using a premade, but ACTUALLY CODING sure is a great way to make you a good programmer. :p
:)
I always shudder whenever I see someone who claims to be a programmer running a website on Movable Type or something. Okay, maybe they're not a WEB programmer. But still!
It's the only cell phone ring tone, besides the default, that I actually respect. There's nothing like walking down the college campus and passing a guy then being startled when the imperial march unexpectedly begins emanating from his body.
You can never use IE and still get spyware. It's bundled in a lot of closed source free software for Windows. I had my parents running with Mozilla for months on a clean formatted installation of Win2k. When I ran an ad-aware scan later, they were inundated.
I wonder of these insecurities are in my Cisco 350 series aironet radio card? My ISP should be informed of this if they are there.
Badly worded, sure. No sense, nope. It seems (to me) like every time something "major" happens, a few months later we get report that "it could have been prevented if..." sort of thing. People get some kind of sense of security by attributing blame in great detail. Of course it could have been prevented if (x) or if (!y) or whatever. But it happened because (!x) or (y) and people act like we should all be telepaths and know this kind of crap beforehand.
Didn't they say the same thing about 9/11? The human need to blame stuff on other stuff is unstoppable isn't it.
They ship with no MP3 support because MP3 format is also not free software. You have to pay a royalty or something retarded to write programs to decode it. Granted most programs we use that decode them never payed such royalty, the law is still there. Even if everyone refuses to obey the law, it still exists.
Finally, they ship with no nvidia support because the nvidia driver from the company is not open source and therefore does not fit the GPL's definition of free software. You can still use your nvidia card using the nv driver, sans opengl.
Call this open source zealotry if you wish, but that's why they do it.
That's true. But try RPG music to non RPG music of any era and I think you'll find that RPG music tends to be of higher quality.
All the Final Fantasies, and many other RPGs, have excellent music. I classify it as "RPG music" which in my view far surpasses regular video game music classification. Comparing FF6 to Tetris is like comparing Mozart to trendy-MTV-of-the-day imho.
We should be disgusted that they're cooking up even more ways to enforce laws which are now unenforceable in modern day America. Technology advancements change what should and shouldn't be considered "intellectual property" and our laws haven't been keeping up. The constitution's view of copyright is hundreds of years old and obsolete. Something tells me the founding fathers would look at the way corporations are lobbying congress to reinterpret their words any way they please with considerable disgust.
Don't be a sheep.
"Think for yourself. Question authority." - Tool - Third Eye
See category "Supernatural Entity" / "Different Methods of Traveling Through Space"
That wasn't warp speed. That was something... else. Thanks to the Traveller guy there. Geordi was wrong. After all, it was a season 1 episode and they might not have decided on the warp factor scale yet at that point in time. Though I agree, that's no excuse. At best that classifies as a script error.
They weren't traveling at infinite velocity though, or even at "Warp". They were travelling ReallyFreakinFast(TM).
Read the whole thread.
What you're talking about are exceptions which use different warp scales, entirely different methods of traveling through space, supernatural beings, or in some cases alternate realities created by supernatural beings. All of which is perfectly explained and believable. The only one that isn't is Voy: Threshold. It's the biggest stain on Trek since TOS: Miri.
Warp 10 is impossible. The warp scale represents speeds exponentially closer to infinity. According to the scale, 10 is the asymptote representing infinite speed. The single episode of Trek (Voy: Threshold) in which this feat is accomplished is often considered not canon by fans because the writer was a moron.
It should be noted that the man who wrote that episode never went on to write for Trek ever again. And it should also be noted that other episodes featuring warp factors of two digits were using a different scale.