I'm on the edge of firing back with a "Look, you didn't even watch the show, how can you possibly comment on it?" But then realized that you sound just like I expected to sound had I not watched it.
I approached it from the old-school view and expected to truly hate it and consider it worse that Galactica 1980. However, I was completely shocked to "hear" myself thinking, an hour into the first episode, "Wow, this is even better than Galactica 1978!!" And coming from me, that's one hell of a compliment. I was only 10 when Galactica 1978 came out, and was so into it at the time that it was nearly religious. I always liked it even better than Star Wars!
So, of course, after seeing the Galactica: Lowdown preview on SciFi, I was ready to puke in disgust. The preview show made it seem terrible. Starbuck was a girl, Baltar seemed really gay in the previews, and Apollo was a big whiner.
However, after actually seeing both episodes in the micro-series, I am just drooling for a series, and massively impressed with the level of thought that went into Galactica 2003.
Without seeing it, I would be totally, absolutely agreeing with you - what a big piece of shit, worse than Galactica 1980 (Minus the last episode where Starbuck returns) and they never should have made it.
However, I am happy to tell you, that if you sit down this Sunday, when they run both episodes back to back, and just check it out for what it is, you will be quite impressed. Sure, there's a lot of T&A, but it doesn't eclipse the story - there's a really good story there, and as weird as it is for such a Galactica 1978 fan as I am to say such a thing, I think the new version is far more solid and intriguing. I'm also thinking that if I saw Galactica 2003 when I was 10, I probably wouldn't have understood it.
Go ahead, bite the bullet and watch it. Hopefully you'll be pleasantly surprised like I was. The preview show and the advertisements for it did it no justice. You've got nothing to lose but four hours, it's worth it I think. Enjoy! I'm curious what you say after actually watching it, I'm still amazed that I not only liked it, but very much approve of it now!
Sure, the people who are so de-clued they put a fucking trash can next to a deleted email instead of the obvious option used by every other mail client out there - MOVE THE DAMN THING TO THE DELETED ITEMS FOLDER.
Talk about clutter. Yes, I'm forced to use your pile of shit Notes at work. Want to cut down on my inbox clutter? Simply move the damn deleted messages out of the inbox view you stupid fucking idiots!
Sure, it's secure as hell, and maybe the backend programming of it is all good and shit, but from someone who comes into work after using Evolution at home, and has to use your bucket of shit all day long, it is a massive pile of shit.
Anybody from the Notes division that reads this: a big fuck you, have a shitty day from me!
Parachute pants were cool. Very cool, especially when you wore them in the winter! But seriously, I never got was was so lame about them. I still miss them. Maybe I'm weird, but they were a lot cooler than the fucking lameass alligator shirts of the time.
But the galactica now looks like a black heatsink instead of the graceful whitish metal of the original. It used to look somewhat reminicent of a Lamborghini. The new one looks like a battery charger.
There's a gas station in Omaha, right by the baseball stadium, his advertised prices are the CASH prices, and there's some small print that says you get a 4 cent per gallon discount if you USE a credit card. I don't understand what the deal is with that, as the advertised price is always right in line with other gas stations, but as long as you use a credit card, you get cheaper gas. And even weirder, I've heard the owner bitching about how how the credit card companies screw him around. I don't bitch though, I just buy my gas there!:)
And that's one of the scariest, big-brother sounding names I've heard: Looks like it should be pronounced like "Watch Over Ya", even though they have some weird pronounciation like "Wack Off Ya"
Excerpt from an interesting article about the whole 666 thing:
Isolated down to the single verse of interest the translated Biblical text in question is: "This calls for wisdom: let anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a person. Its number is six hundred sixty-six" (Rev 13:18, NRSV).
The purpose of this study is not to add to the enormous literature about the apocalyptic images and this number. Entire books have been written on this subject[1]. Rather this study will concentrate only on the representation of the number six hundred sixty-six, arguing that to represent it as 666 (triple six) is an error. Such a representation can mislead modern readers towards false interpretations. It is a severely anachronistic representation.
OK, then go with Mandrake 9.2. I just installed it on my laptop the other night, plugged my Sony Cybershot camera into the USB port, and suddenly a new icon appears "/mnt/camera", I go into the directory and find all my pictures!
No config changes, no file editing, nothing, it just worked!
Even my ancient Okidata OL-400e laser printer worked immediately after clicking "Search for printers" during the install. I have NEVER gotten that printer to work with any version of Linux before.
Anti-aliasing works, OpenOffice is nicely installed, most excellent. I would call the entire thing just as easy, or easier, than installing Windows!
I think a desktop-complete version of Linux FINALLY exists with Mandrake 9.2! I haven't found any problems with it!
The way things are going, there won't be checkout people anymore. All the grocery stores in town are now featuring "Self-Checkout" aisles, where you do the whole thing yourself, with one teenaged overseer tries (or does not try) to watch all the self checkouts at the same time. Which leads to fun things like sticking pre-printed UPC codes for generic items onto name-brand items and getting the item far cheaper! The more they eradicate the workforce, the more they get taken away from them, but as long as people steal less than it would cost to pay a checkout person, then it's just considered an acceptable risk-management cost/benefit ratio.
How about one of these? Estwing's new "Weight Forward" hammer. These things rock, and look completely alien as well.
I would have loved to have one of these 14 years ago when I was working construction while going to college! The shape of them kind of reminds you of those back-kneed aliens on "The Arrival"
One of the things I like best about Mandrake is that, unlike RedHat, they still support LinuxConf out of the box. Mandrake has made their own configuration utilities, but doesn't force you to use them.
Ever since RedHat started making their own alternatives to LinuxConf, they've removed LinuxConf from the base install, and their tools suck. Most are not accessible from the command line, and their network configuration utility is not smart enough to deal with more than one NIC. Sucks.
Gotta say after several years of trying different distros (Started with RedHat 5.1, well really an ancient 0.xx copy of Slackware I was never able to get installed) I find that Mandrake is the easiest to use both from the newbie and the advanced angle. RedHat's what we use on the Linux servers at work, but Mandrake on most of the workstations.
I'd feel pretty confident about using a base install of Mandrake (Unselecting all the workstation type stuff during installation) as well, I've been running it on my home servers for several years with no OS-related problems.
In modern vernacular, sodomy refers exclusively to anal sex. Sure, back in the dark ages, probably looking at a woman with the wrong expression on your face was probably considered sodomy.
In my opinion, it sounds to me like you just played everything into Microsoft's hands. With Microsoft so desparate for a magic bullet against the Open Source threat, perhaps they made an offer to RedHat execs to make them all rich in return for critically destabilizing the already unstable Linux market. The ultimate FUD. Taking RedHat out of the reach of the typical RedHat user, and pricing your enterprise product higher than Microsoft's.
I just don't get it. Why else would the most respected Linux company suddenly spit all over that's been feeding them and deny interest in the product that got them where they are today?
This is the kind of move I could see happening in a fully mature Linux market, but that market wasn't going to be here for another 5 to 10 years. Now with your premature move, you may have fatally injured the movement for large-scale adoption of Linux. The slow death could be beginning now, and it's your fault if so. Thanks for being so impatient and short-sited.
Note that this is all pure conjecture and conpiracy theorizing, but I just cannot come up with any other believable scenario. My single question is: Why did you do this and what kind of world are you expecting to create with this kind of move?
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I'm on the edge of firing back with a "Look, you didn't even watch the show, how can you possibly comment on it?" But then realized that you sound just like I expected to sound had I not watched it.
I approached it from the old-school view and expected to truly hate it and consider it worse that Galactica 1980. However, I was completely shocked to "hear" myself thinking, an hour into the first episode, "Wow, this is even better than Galactica 1978!!" And coming from me, that's one hell of a compliment. I was only 10 when Galactica 1978 came out, and was so into it at the time that it was nearly religious. I always liked it even better than Star Wars!
So, of course, after seeing the Galactica: Lowdown preview on SciFi, I was ready to puke in disgust. The preview show made it seem terrible. Starbuck was a girl, Baltar seemed really gay in the previews, and Apollo was a big whiner.
However, after actually seeing both episodes in the micro-series, I am just drooling for a series, and massively impressed with the level of thought that went into Galactica 2003.
Without seeing it, I would be totally, absolutely agreeing with you - what a big piece of shit, worse than Galactica 1980 (Minus the last episode where Starbuck returns) and they never should have made it.
However, I am happy to tell you, that if you sit down this Sunday, when they run both episodes back to back, and just check it out for what it is, you will be quite impressed. Sure, there's a lot of T&A, but it doesn't eclipse the story - there's a really good story there, and as weird as it is for such a Galactica 1978 fan as I am to say such a thing, I think the new version is far more solid and intriguing. I'm also thinking that if I saw Galactica 2003 when I was 10, I probably wouldn't have understood it.
Go ahead, bite the bullet and watch it. Hopefully you'll be pleasantly surprised like I was. The preview show and the advertisements for it did it no justice. You've got nothing to lose but four hours, it's worth it I think. Enjoy! I'm curious what you say after actually watching it, I'm still amazed that I not only liked it, but very much approve of it now!
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No, it screws it up when they tell me that Trinity dies, but Neo sticks his whole hand in her and brings her back to life!
Your quite welcome! :)
:)
Great fun tailing my log and watch it happily scrolling away!
Mirrored the spolier synopsis here
Sure, the people who are so de-clued they put a fucking trash can next to a deleted email instead of the obvious option used by every other mail client out there - MOVE THE DAMN THING TO THE DELETED ITEMS FOLDER.
Talk about clutter. Yes, I'm forced to use your pile of shit Notes at work. Want to cut down on my inbox clutter? Simply move the damn deleted messages out of the inbox view you stupid fucking idiots!
Sure, it's secure as hell, and maybe the backend programming of it is all good and shit, but from someone who comes into work after using Evolution at home, and has to use your bucket of shit all day long, it is a massive pile of shit.
Anybody from the Notes division that reads this: a big fuck you, have a shitty day from me!
Parachute pants were cool. Very cool, especially when you wore them in the winter! But seriously, I never got was was so lame about them. I still miss them. Maybe I'm weird, but they were a lot cooler than the fucking lameass alligator shirts of the time.
They already made Baltar a wimpy gay british guy, at least they stopped there.
:)
Oh fuck is this remake going to suck ass! I can't wait to see it so I'll have something to bitch about afterwords!
But the galactica now looks like a black heatsink instead of the graceful whitish metal of the original. It used to look somewhat reminicent of a Lamborghini. The new one looks like a battery charger.
Ya sure, that's just an old Saturday Night Live (SNL) skit.
There's a gas station in Omaha, right by the baseball stadium, his advertised prices are the CASH prices, and there's some small print that says you get a 4 cent per gallon discount if you USE a credit card. I don't understand what the deal is with that, as the advertised price is always right in line with other gas stations, but as long as you use a credit card, you get cheaper gas. And even weirder, I've heard the owner bitching about how how the credit card companies screw him around. I don't bitch though, I just buy my gas there! :)
And that's one of the scariest, big-brother sounding names I've heard: Looks like it should be pronounced like "Watch Over Ya", even though they have some weird pronounciation like "Wack Off Ya"
I dunno, ask RedHat, not me... :) Sorry you picked RH instead of MDK!
Excerpt from an interesting article about the whole 666 thing:
Isolated down to the single verse of interest the translated Biblical text in question is: "This calls for wisdom: let anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a person. Its number is six hundred sixty-six" (Rev 13:18, NRSV).
The purpose of this study is not to add to the enormous literature about the apocalyptic images and this number. Entire books have been written on this subject[1]. Rather this study will concentrate only on the representation of the number six hundred sixty-six, arguing that to represent it as 666 (triple six) is an error. Such a representation can mislead modern readers towards false interpretations. It is a severely anachronistic representation.
> Once Microsoft uses the DRM-enforcing Fritz chip (which, according to the DMCA legislation, must be present in your computer)
Where in the DMCA does it say _anything_ about any chip being required to be in your computer?????
Oh, that's right, it doesn't - you're talking out your ass...
You should be happy to know that you no longer need to question your wisdom, but you should question your knowledge.
I'd say you don't need a PhD, you need a PkD to get deep into this...
The IA64 debacle is already over? How do you figure?
Uh, have your TRIED plugging your Sony camera into your Linux box? I did, it worked, no drivers needed. (Mandrake 9.2)
I got the same happy experience with Mandrake 9.2 and my Sony CyberShot DSC-U20 - just plugged it in and it worked! :)
OK, then go with Mandrake 9.2. I just installed it on my laptop the other night, plugged my Sony Cybershot camera into the USB port, and suddenly a new icon appears "/mnt/camera", I go into the directory and find all my pictures!
No config changes, no file editing, nothing, it just worked!
Even my ancient Okidata OL-400e laser printer worked immediately after clicking "Search for printers" during the install. I have NEVER gotten that printer to work with any version of Linux before.
Anti-aliasing works, OpenOffice is nicely installed, most excellent. I would call the entire thing just as easy, or easier, than installing Windows!
I think a desktop-complete version of Linux FINALLY exists with Mandrake 9.2! I haven't found any problems with it!
The way things are going, there won't be checkout people anymore. All the grocery stores in town are now featuring "Self-Checkout" aisles, where you do the whole thing yourself, with one teenaged overseer tries (or does not try) to watch all the self checkouts at the same time. Which leads to fun things like sticking pre-printed UPC codes for generic items onto name-brand items and getting the item far cheaper! The more they eradicate the workforce, the more they get taken away from them, but as long as people steal less than it would cost to pay a checkout person, then it's just considered an acceptable risk-management cost/benefit ratio.
How about one of these? Estwing's new "Weight Forward" hammer. These things rock, and look completely alien as well.
I would have loved to have one of these 14 years ago when I was working construction while going to college! The shape of them kind of reminds you of those back-kneed aliens on "The Arrival"
One of the things I like best about Mandrake is that, unlike RedHat, they still support LinuxConf out of the box. Mandrake has made their own configuration utilities, but doesn't force you to use them.
Ever since RedHat started making their own alternatives to LinuxConf, they've removed LinuxConf from the base install, and their tools suck. Most are not accessible from the command line, and their network configuration utility is not smart enough to deal with more than one NIC. Sucks.
Gotta say after several years of trying different distros (Started with RedHat 5.1, well really an ancient 0.xx copy of Slackware I was never able to get installed) I find that Mandrake is the easiest to use both from the newbie and the advanced angle. RedHat's what we use on the Linux servers at work, but Mandrake on most of the workstations.
I'd feel pretty confident about using a base install of Mandrake (Unselecting all the workstation type stuff during installation) as well, I've been running it on my home servers for several years with no OS-related problems.
My 2 cents anyway... I like Mandrake a lot.
In modern vernacular, sodomy refers exclusively to anal sex. Sure, back in the dark ages, probably looking at a woman with the wrong expression on your face was probably considered sodomy.
Felatio: Blow Job
Sodomy: Anal
Cunnilingus: Rug Munching
In my opinion, it sounds to me like you just played everything into Microsoft's hands. With Microsoft so desparate for a magic bullet against the Open Source threat, perhaps they made an offer to RedHat execs to make them all rich in return for critically destabilizing the already unstable Linux market. The ultimate FUD. Taking RedHat out of the reach of the typical RedHat user, and pricing your enterprise product higher than Microsoft's.
I just don't get it. Why else would the most respected Linux company suddenly spit all over that's been feeding them and deny interest in the product that got them where they are today?
This is the kind of move I could see happening in a fully mature Linux market, but that market wasn't going to be here for another 5 to 10 years. Now with your premature move, you may have fatally injured the movement for large-scale adoption of Linux. The slow death could be beginning now, and it's your fault if so. Thanks for being so impatient and short-sited.
Note that this is all pure conjecture and conpiracy theorizing, but I just cannot come up with any other believable scenario. My single question is: Why did you do this and what kind of world are you expecting to create with this kind of move?