The limitations of the AppleTV is that it cannot get my satellite programming
Its not meant to. You also can't cook a TV dinner with it...
cannot play my DVDs (do they expect me to rip them into some format and violate that MPAA agreement?)
Lots of people are ripping their OWN DVDs. Its called fair use I think... Also, if you already have DVDs you 'might' already have a DVD player...
cannot work with my Linux and Amiga boxes
Yea, I am pissed it doen't work with TRS-80s also...
and limits how many times I can play a file or how long I can play a file due to DRM that isn't present on my Tivo or DVD players.
Huh? No forced DRM except for ITMS purchases which you get to keep and play forever..
The iTV is NOT A TV or TIVO.. Its more like a sling box that pulls instead of pushes. Its for people who want all of their video collection available on their TV or TVs.... GSG
The mom-and-pops tend to pay a livable wage to their employees
Really, I thought they usually have a preference to hire their "Sons and Daughters" to avoid having to worry about employee liabilities, paying workers comp, Social Sec, etc...
I always thought that the green ones just down the street were better... The rent is a little lower but there are three instead of two. So the probability of getting rent is higher...
GSG
but the "real" Trekkies I know all prefer DS9 to anything else while the closet Trekkies and the I-was-raised-in-the-80s group all like TNG
Huh? I don't think so.... TOS and TNG were ST at its best but DS9 started the slow slide to STV and the last one with the quantum leap guy.... Transexuals, shapeshifters, strange NEW alieans, bah! The studios know this is so otherwise they would be making some kinda Sisco/DS9 movie....
Going back to Pre-TOS kinda makes sense but when I read FTA -> "For people who've never seen it or know it vaguely, I think they will enjoy it equally, because the movie does not require you to know anything about Star Trek."
Pretty much agree with you on that.... I DO think that Ronald D. Moore leaving Paramount hurt Trek alot. Not many people know that the creator of the new Battlestar Galactica, is also the same guy that refined the Klingon characters in TNG and DS9.... He also specialized in what the studios, then, didn't want... story arcs.. Voyager was done mainly by the Berman and Braga crowd who basically ruined everything. Well.... Okay 7of9 was a pretty cool character... They should not have lost Moore... But he is doing pretty well for himself....
The ultimate Trek Movie was, ofcourse, TWOC... Okay this is another excuse to post -> http://www.khaaan.com/
As far as games go... I would REALLY like to see a computer equivalent of the old Star Fleet Battles paper game....
How about this statement? -> Joe Blow (fill in the name) NEVER denied that he molested children.... For people that would true statement but totally misleading...
Agreed... A better way of putting it is that the term "hits" implies that the Russians were "aiming" for us. The term "falls in" implies that it was a mistake which is what it was...
I don't understand your logic. How did anyone that buy PlaysForSure music get "FUCKED by Microsoft?" That would imply that those that bought PFS music would be better off in some way if Micrososft didn't come out with Zune, at a
I think the issue is that if you have a large buy-in for PFS songs and if you want to upgrade to a ZUNE (so you can play your songs AND watch videos like the IPods can) then you can't play your songs on the ZUNE. You gotta carry two devices? That sux. MSFT could have made the old files work on the ZUNE but choose not to... Am I wrong anyone???
Sure! Your intuition is far more powerful than 100 years of scien-ma-tific observation.
Mod parent down as something other than funny... Its not...
Mod Grand-Parent up also because he has a good point.
Dude, his point was that it may be very possible that the O-Hole was always present before we had the means to measure it. You know, like "maybe" Pluto was around before it was discovered or that "maybe" global temps were fluctuating before man learned how to start fires...
It certainly seems possible that the fluctuating Ozone hole may be a naturally occuring process that has been happening for many many centuries AND thats its not because of BAD-HUMANS...
A. Destroy the borg collective by implanting a trojan horse computer virus into a displaced borg android. B. Respect the "individual" rights of Hugh Borg and let him decide his own future.
Why does this text file reader REQUIRE a Windows PC??? Wouldn't it be better just to have it act like a USB drive that can also image the contained files (text. BBEwhatever, etc...)...
GSG
I am sort of a trek geek.... To my knowledge, everything that the replicator creates has to have been created already by a normal process. Its just making an exact copy of a steak that existed at some point in the past.
According to the Star Trek Eutopian future, it was the invention of the replicator that caused peace to break out on earth. It did away with the current "shortage economics" by making nothing in short supply and allowed people to pursue other things besides what most people now do (working to buy things)... Thus wars stop as well...
I get the feeling that if a replicator was ever really invented, just the opposite would happen. Someone would immediately patent anything possible to make and charge a fee to use a replicator... Want to replicate food for the starving, gotta pay the guy who owns the rights to beef, potatoes, etc...
Yes, in fact you would also have to include the monthly fees of the game itself as an expense. So if I treat my game playing as a business (where my intent IS to obtain the expensive tradeable/taxable items) can I effectively write off my monthly fees as a loss even if I never get the dark crystal sword or whatever?
Someone is going to make a lot of money selling Chinese digital-to-component adapters for all these HDTV owners
I don't think it will be THAT easy. I think they are doing some sort of hardware chip-to-chip crypto method where the keys are not fixed and use is tied to certain h/w ids...
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The limitations of the AppleTV is that it cannot get my satellite programming
Its not meant to. You also can't cook a TV dinner with it...
cannot play my DVDs (do they expect me to rip them into some format and violate that MPAA agreement?)
Lots of people are ripping their OWN DVDs. Its called fair use I think... Also, if you already have DVDs you 'might' already have a DVD player...
cannot work with my Linux and Amiga boxes
Yea, I am pissed it doen't work with TRS-80s also...
and limits how many times I can play a file or how long I can play a file due to DRM that isn't present on my Tivo or DVD players.
Huh? No forced DRM except for ITMS purchases which you get to keep and play forever..
The iTV is NOT A TV or TIVO.. Its more like a sling box that pulls instead of pushes. Its for people who want all of their video collection available on their TV or TVs.... GSG
The mom-and-pops tend to pay a livable wage to their employees
Really, I thought they usually have a preference to hire their "Sons and Daughters" to avoid having to worry about employee liabilities, paying workers comp, Social Sec, etc...
I always thought that the green ones just down the street were better... The rent is a little lower but there are three instead of two. So the probability of getting rent is higher... GSG
Yes, he is talking about WoW. It runs on the Mac you know....
but the "real" Trekkies I know all prefer DS9 to anything else while the closet Trekkies and the I-was-raised-in-the-80s group all like TNG
Huh? I don't think so.... TOS and TNG were ST at its best but DS9 started the slow slide to STV and the last one with the quantum leap guy.... Transexuals, shapeshifters, strange NEW alieans, bah! The studios know this is so otherwise they would be making some kinda Sisco/DS9 movie....
Going back to Pre-TOS kinda makes sense but when I read FTA -> "For people who've never seen it or know it vaguely, I think they will enjoy it equally, because the movie does not require you to know anything about Star Trek."
Its probably gonna suck...
The Trekverse would be a good place to set an old-fashioned adventure game. Alas, CBS Paramount will never back such a game..
I wonder how this -> http://www.startrek.perpetual.com/index.html
will do...
GSG
Classical Trek for me ended when TNG ended.
Pretty much agree with you on that.... I DO think that Ronald D. Moore leaving Paramount hurt Trek alot. Not many people know that the creator of the new Battlestar Galactica, is also the same guy that refined the Klingon characters in TNG and DS9.... He also specialized in what the studios, then, didn't want... story arcs.. Voyager was done mainly by the Berman and Braga crowd who basically ruined everything. Well.... Okay 7of9 was a pretty cool character... They should not have lost Moore... But he is doing pretty well for himself....
The ultimate Trek Movie was, ofcourse, TWOC... Okay this is another excuse to post -> http://www.khaaan.com/
As far as games go... I would REALLY like to see a computer equivalent of the old Star Fleet Battles paper game....
GSG
Okay.. I hope I am the first to post this -> http://www.khaaan.com/
GSG
How about this statement? -> Joe Blow (fill in the name) NEVER denied that he molested children.... For people that would true statement but totally misleading...
GSG
Agreed... A better way of putting it is that the term "hits" implies that the Russians were "aiming" for us. The term "falls in" implies that it was a mistake which is what it was...
John
Not Soooo Fast... http://www.powerbasic.com/
I used to use the Blitz Basic Compiler for the Commodore 64 but I couldn't find a link on that one....
Wait... this -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz_BASIC is close...
GSG
I don't understand your logic. How did anyone that buy PlaysForSure music get "FUCKED by Microsoft?" That would imply that those that bought PFS music would be better off in some way if Micrososft didn't come out with Zune, at a
I think the issue is that if you have a large buy-in for PFS songs and if you want to upgrade to a ZUNE (so you can play your songs AND watch videos like the IPods can) then you can't play your songs on the ZUNE. You gotta carry two devices? That sux. MSFT could have made the old files work on the ZUNE but choose not to... Am I wrong anyone???
GSG
Sure! Your intuition is far more powerful than 100 years of scien-ma-tific observation.
Mod parent down as something other than funny... Its not...
Mod Grand-Parent up also because he has a good point.
Dude, his point was that it may be very possible that the O-Hole was always present before we had the means to measure it. You know, like "maybe" Pluto was around before it was discovered or that "maybe" global temps were fluctuating before man learned how to start fires...
It certainly seems possible that the fluctuating Ozone hole may be a naturally occuring process that has been happening for many many centuries AND thats its not because of BAD-HUMANS...
GSG
Don't forget that North Korea is a mere missle launch away, and they may have the nukes.
Maybe they should start playing "Missile Command" then?
GSG
When faced with the following two options:
A. Destroy the borg collective by implanting a trojan horse computer virus into a displaced borg android.
B. Respect the "individual" rights of Hugh Borg and let him decide his own future.
KIRK WOULD NOT have chosen option B.
Why does this text file reader REQUIRE a Windows PC??? Wouldn't it be better just to have it act like a USB drive that can also image the contained files (text. BBEwhatever, etc...)... GSG
You are confusing average (mean) with mediun. Its probably pretty close though... GSG
I for one would rather have:
this -> http://www.atarihq.com/museum/2678/graduate.html
GSG
I am sort of a trek geek.... To my knowledge, everything that the replicator creates has to have been created already by a normal process. Its just making an exact copy of a steak that existed at some point in the past.
According to the Star Trek Eutopian future, it was the invention of the replicator that caused peace to break out on earth. It did away with the current "shortage economics" by making nothing in short supply and allowed people to pursue other things besides what most people now do (working to buy things)... Thus wars stop as well...
I get the feeling that if a replicator was ever really invented, just the opposite would happen. Someone would immediately patent anything possible to make and charge a fee to use a replicator... Want to replicate food for the starving, gotta pay the guy who owns the rights to beef, potatoes, etc...
GSG
What happened to David Hasselhoff?
GSG
Why didn't THIS go into the Mac-Mini?? I am outraged!!!
GSG
The whole point of MMO's is to try to achieve more things in less time than other people given the same opprotunities
Really? I thought the whole point was to play with your friends and play with characters that are not computer generated NPCs.....
But then again, I only play casually...
GSG
Yes, in fact you would also have to include the monthly fees of the game itself as an expense. So if I treat my game playing as a business (where my intent IS to obtain the expensive tradeable/taxable items) can I effectively write off my monthly fees as a loss even if I never get the dark crystal sword or whatever?
GSG
they won't be able to kill off DVD for at least a decade and a half, probably longer.
I agree, but the point is that it is that the process is starting now...
GSG
Someone is going to make a lot of money selling Chinese digital-to-component adapters for all these HDTV owners
I don't think it will be THAT easy. I think they are doing some sort of hardware chip-to-chip crypto method where the keys are not fixed and use is tied to certain h/w ids...
GSG