What's that, "not so honest opinion"? Anyways my point is clearly about Star Trek. If you want to replace "Battlestar Galactica" with "Farscape", go ahead and my point still stands.
Star Trek's canvass is the infinite universe. If you can't think of an original story, in a limitless universe, don't blame the format. Imagine if these clowns were "restricted" to events on a single city, like most shows. Holy crap, such a show would make Gigli look like a classical art masterpiece.
One more thing, Archer and Janeway were miscast. When Voyager was announced, there was all this talk about "oooh a girl captain". Well that was fine with me, until I found out they cast what appears to be my KINDERGARTEN TEACHER. I'm sure this woman could put on a great performance, as Mary Poppins. However each time she gets "mad", I'm laughing at her.
Archer, he looks like some granola boy who should be on his mountain bike. He's the Han Solo who shot second. Sure he tries to be bad ass, but we all know he's a wuss. I could see him singing the theme song, he should do that instead.
The reason only one of those sucks is no Cylons.;)
You forgot that there was 7 of 9. You forgot this because Voyager was so wooden, it numbed your brain so that the finest rack in sci-fi wouldn't even register.
Enterprise has a really good cast, but the format or even the Star Trek genre is just stale and tired right now.
A popular theme here seems to be that Star Trek is worn out, tired, needs rest.
This is ridiculous. You got a space ship and an infinite universe, and you can't think of any original story lines? This is simply poor writing. Bring in good people and Star Trek could change tomorrow.
Lets see...
Voyager was about a ship lost in space, evading aliens and trying to get back to earth.
Battlestar Galactica is about...err..a ship lost in space, evading aliens and trying to get back to earth.
The reason only one of those sucks is the writing, producing, directing.
.Net is a failed marketing campaign. That's it. It no longer makes sense to speak of ".Net" without some other qualifier. You can talk about:
Visual Basic.Net. A programming language.
Visual Studio Net. An IDE.
.Net Framework. A platform.
These were supposed to be part of a larger ".Net" product strategy, however the term ".Net" was so ill defined that the term became meaningless. So only use that term when referring to a specific product as above.
One would assume it would be pretty hard for your Joe Sixpack to go out and just print these things willy-nilly.
All you need is a barcode printer and some software which are publicly available for a few hundred dollars, like from these guys. Get a UPC number off a pack of chewing gum and put the sticker on a mountain bike. The hard part is finding a checker who won't notice. I can't figure out that one.
If you are using only a hardware firewall you could already be owned and your computer could be seen by your firewall as an overactive mailer...
It needs to somehow get installed on my machine before it can call home, and that hasn't happened. I know because I periodically use Symantec's online virus scanner, and it's never found anything. And it does work because I've used it to diagnose other peoples infestations.
What continues to blow my mind are the numbers of users who do not have anti-virus software installed or kept up to date on their systems.
I've never had any antivirus software installed. Never. At home I've run Windows 2003, XP, 2000, NT, ME, 98, 95 and 3.1.
I've also never had a virus. Ever. Safe browsing habits, proper choice of application software and a hardware firewall are enough. Anti-virus is mainly for those who are not knowledgeable enough to perform the above. While this is a large number of people, my own existance should not blow your mind.
It takes what, five minutes or less, for an XP box to get riddled with viruses, Trojans, etc.?
While I know that MS has big security problems, it just blows me away that technically astute slashdotters still connect to the internet without even as much as a NAT router. I mean come on you can get a Linksys for 50 bucks. Assume personal responsibility and the problem dissapears.
Installing development related tools onto a developer machine needn't be a sysadmin task. If I am forced to call the help desk because I want to install some SDK documentation, I won't be able to do my job. Insisting that I do so would make you a network operator from hell.
Start watching Canadian TV. We got Kink, a serial documentary about S&M, Friday night soft core on BCTV, and a half hour swear fest called Trailer Park Boys.
Intelligence or being informed is not a prerequisite to freedom. If people can be asked to die for their country or to pay taxes or to be subjugated to the laws of the land, then they should have a chance to exercise their opinion
Of course everyone should be given the opportunity to be heard. However if you don't educate yourself, others will take advantage of your ignorance to impose their will upon you voluntarily. That's why politicians lie and newsrooms spin. In this way, knowledge is a prerequisite to freedom.
The populace is generally ignorant. Unfortunately you can't force knowledge upon them and you don't want to disenfranchise them.
You are not entitled to your own opinion up here, or to even criticize.
I'm not sure where you live, but I've lived in Vancouver for 35 years and have no idea what you've been smoking. I have an older relative who has gone somewhat senile due to age. He walks around alot complaining in a loud voice about "too many blackies in the city". Nobody's ever said a word to him. Try that in Los Angeles.
When labor goes to India, that means Indians get richer and start buying goods. Some of those goods will be produced in America.
Yes, assuming the US workers go on to produce something else which gets sold abroad. This is not taking place, hence your unprecedented trade deficit. There is a giant sucking sound, to the tune of 2 billion dollars a day of money flowing out of the US. Suckers.
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Flourescent lights just suck. The flourescent lights always needed to "warm up" and even then I never felt like there was adequate light for anything.
You need to take a second look. What you say is true for a few years ago. However recent flourescents have an imperceptible warm up time and can match the lumens output of a similarly sized filament bulb. I recently switched over my whole house and don't regret anything.
The second time the remote mail server tries to connect, the server accepts the mail and adds the address to the whitelist. Currently it's porbably the best spam blocking method that exists.
Until the spammers catch on and start to resend their requests. This seems like a stop-gap solution.
1) The 5 year solar sail propelled mission to Pluto - is there a way to decelerate as you reach Pluto?
Well you could arrange to arrive with enough velocity to enter orbit around Pluto. That's not slowing down, you just start going in circles.
As for coming back, I don't know how. I don't think you can tack back, as doing so in a boat relies upon the force of the water against your boat. There's no water in space so I don't think that will work.
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They both sucked, IMNSHO
What's that, "not so honest opinion"? Anyways my point is clearly about Star Trek. If you want to replace "Battlestar Galactica" with "Farscape", go ahead and my point still stands.
Star Trek's canvass is the infinite universe. If you can't think of an original story, in a limitless universe, don't blame the format. Imagine if these clowns were "restricted" to events on a single city, like most shows. Holy crap, such a show would make Gigli look like a classical art masterpiece.
One more thing, Archer and Janeway were miscast. When Voyager was announced, there was all this talk about "oooh a girl captain". Well that was fine with me, until I found out they cast what appears to be my KINDERGARTEN TEACHER. I'm sure this woman could put on a great performance, as Mary Poppins. However each time she gets "mad", I'm laughing at her.
Archer, he looks like some granola boy who should be on his mountain bike. He's the Han Solo who shot second. Sure he tries to be bad ass, but we all know he's a wuss. I could see him singing the theme song, he should do that instead.
The reason only one of those sucks is no Cylons. ;)
You forgot that there was 7 of 9. You forgot this because Voyager was so wooden, it numbed your brain so that the finest rack in sci-fi wouldn't even register.
Enterprise has a really good cast, but the format or even the Star Trek genre is just stale and tired right now.
A popular theme here seems to be that Star Trek is worn out, tired, needs rest.
This is ridiculous. You got a space ship and an infinite universe, and you can't think of any original story lines? This is simply poor writing. Bring in good people and Star Trek could change tomorrow.
Lets see...
Voyager was about a ship lost in space, evading aliens and trying to get back to earth.
Battlestar Galactica is about...err..a ship lost in space, evading aliens and trying to get back to earth.
The reason only one of those sucks is the writing, producing, directing.
That puts him in the %34.7 tax bracket which is the highest one the USA currently has.
Why would Mr. Nakamura, as a Japanese citizen working in Japan, pay the IRS anything?
.Net is a failed marketing campaign. That's it. It no longer makes sense to speak of ".Net" without some other qualifier. You can talk about:
.Net Framework. A platform.
Visual Basic.Net. A programming language.
Visual Studio Net. An IDE.
These were supposed to be part of a larger ".Net" product strategy, however the term ".Net" was so ill defined that the term became meaningless. So only use that term when referring to a specific product as above.
One would assume it would be pretty hard for your Joe Sixpack to go out and just print these things willy-nilly.
All you need is a barcode printer and some software which are publicly available for a few hundred dollars, like from these guys. Get a UPC number off a pack of chewing gum and put the sticker on a mountain bike. The hard part is finding a checker who won't notice. I can't figure out that one.
If you are using only a hardware firewall you could already be owned and your computer could be seen by your firewall as an overactive mailer...
It needs to somehow get installed on my machine before it can call home, and that hasn't happened. I know because I periodically use Symantec's online virus scanner, and it's never found anything. And it does work because I've used it to diagnose other peoples infestations.
Sorry something about french and engineering in the same concept just eludes me.
Yeah, you better send that green statue in NY harbor back to France, before it topples over.
What continues to blow my mind are the numbers of users who do not have anti-virus software installed or kept up to date on their systems.
I've never had any antivirus software installed. Never. At home I've run Windows 2003, XP, 2000, NT, ME, 98, 95 and 3.1.
I've also never had a virus. Ever. Safe browsing habits, proper choice of application software and a hardware firewall are enough. Anti-virus is mainly for those who are not knowledgeable enough to perform the above. While this is a large number of people, my own existance should not blow your mind.
9) What is the best material for covering Natalie Portman?
Saran wrap?
It takes what, five minutes or less, for an XP box to get riddled with viruses, Trojans, etc.?
While I know that MS has big security problems, it just blows me away that technically astute slashdotters still connect to the internet without even as much as a NAT router. I mean come on you can get a Linksys for 50 bucks. Assume personal responsibility and the problem dissapears.
fragments of the plain text will be in various caches on your harddisk...being overwritten by subsequent paging
Worse than that, HD data overwritten is still recoverable if someone had enough cash, like say the FBI.
How to really wipe a HD
The only way to guarantee The Man can't get your data is to melt down your drive.
Installing development related tools onto a developer machine needn't be a sysadmin task. If I am forced to call the help desk because I want to install some SDK documentation, I won't be able to do my job. Insisting that I do so would make you a network operator from hell.
Request...DENIED!
Start watching Canadian TV. We got Kink, a serial documentary about S&M, Friday night soft core on BCTV, and a half hour swear fest called Trailer Park Boys.
Stonehenge isn't even paticularly old compared to other Megalithic structures in Britain. People just talk about it because it's the coolest.
Look at long barrow tombs which can go back to around 4000 BC
Intelligence or being informed is not a prerequisite to freedom. If people can be asked to die for their country or to pay taxes or to be subjugated to the laws of the land, then they should have a chance to exercise their opinion
Of course everyone should be given the opportunity to be heard. However if you don't educate yourself, others will take advantage of your ignorance to impose their will upon you voluntarily. That's why politicians lie and newsrooms spin. In this way, knowledge is a prerequisite to freedom.
The populace is generally ignorant. Unfortunately you can't force knowledge upon them and you don't want to disenfranchise them.
You are not entitled to your own opinion up here, or to even criticize.
I'm not sure where you live, but I've lived in Vancouver for 35 years and have no idea what you've been smoking. I have an older relative who has gone somewhat senile due to age. He walks around alot complaining in a loud voice about "too many blackies in the city". Nobody's ever said a word to him. Try that in Los Angeles.
When labor goes to India, that means Indians get richer and start buying goods. Some of those goods will be produced in America.
Yes, assuming the US workers go on to produce something else which gets sold abroad. This is not taking place, hence your unprecedented trade deficit. There is a giant sucking sound, to the tune of 2 billion dollars a day of money flowing out of the US. Suckers.
The ability of the parking brake is insignificant compared to the power of the engine.
The reason I haven't converted my bedroom is that the compact floresent bulbs do have a 1 to 2 second startup delay
The latest generation of florescents have no warm up delay. Much less annoying. Sylvania, among others, make such bulbs.
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Flourescent lights just suck. The flourescent lights always needed to "warm up" and even then I never felt like there was adequate light for anything.
You need to take a second look. What you say is true for a few years ago. However recent flourescents have an imperceptible warm up time and can match the lumens output of a similarly sized filament bulb. I recently switched over my whole house and don't regret anything.
That being said, if Darl McBride's resume crossed my desk, it would go straight in the trash after being defaced in various ways.
And pass up the opportunity, after interviewing him, to offer him a position in the janitorial department? That would be a laugh of a lifetime.
The second time the remote mail server tries to connect, the server accepts the mail and adds the address to the whitelist. Currently it's porbably the best spam blocking method that exists.
Until the spammers catch on and start to resend their requests. This seems like a stop-gap solution.
Of course, I'm probably forgetting lots of stuff. Anyone have further things I've missed??
Computer terminals that, when shot at, give off a massive electrical discharge, killing the operator.
The terminal, however, continues to function. Apparently the secret is to use the operator as the electrical ground for the system.
1) The 5 year solar sail propelled mission to Pluto - is there a way to decelerate as you reach Pluto?
Well you could arrange to arrive with enough velocity to enter orbit around Pluto. That's not slowing down, you just start going in circles.
As for coming back, I don't know how. I don't think you can tack back, as doing so in a boat relies upon the force of the water against your boat. There's no water in space so I don't think that will work.