Before everybody get excited about JMS and his little trek film does anybody remember that little movie B5: Legend of the Rangers (LOR)?
Now I loved B5 the series, the movies, and Crusade, but LOR just plain sucked. I don't know if it was the SciFi channel screwing with movie too much or JMS had just run out of ideas, but it was Voyager bad.
So not everything JMS does is golden, really he was never that good at writing dialog, oh so melodramatic.
What really needs to happen is have Joss Weldon take over Star Trek, now Joss could make a good...oh wait, been done.
Frankly Farscape beat the hell out of all of them. God does the SciFi Chanel suck.
TV just isn't the place to have good scifi any more. Doesn't matter who's running it.
How about we just have shorter election times? Why does it take all year to elect a guy? I can see why back before TV and radio the need to take the time to do an election correctly, but now?
If the election time was just three months (from start of the campaign to the actual election) the politicians would have more time to actual do something than campaign. Also cheaper too...
So where do I send my check for donations for the Red Hat/Debian/IBM/Anybody elses' lawsuit against SCO? $32 Dollars? WTF? I gladly give 10x times that to put SCO out of business.
I cannot speak with any experience on Sirus but I love my XM Radio. The audio quality is better than any local radio station (I would say nearly CD quality on most days). As for commercials about half the station don't have any and the other half have just a few, again much better than any local radio station (I live in the middle of Michigan, local stations are crappy).
As for cut outs you will get them going under bridges and tall buildings most for less than 5 - 10 seconds. I have found on that in a heavy downpour the signal will degrade but is still decent.
Not sure if it is true but new receivers hitting the market are going to support both Sirus and XM (at the same time I don't know). So if one of them tanks you will not be out the cost of a new receiver.
When I got the radio installed (Back in February) I asked how the sales where going for XM, I was told that many of the early adopters were truckers (makes sense) and that they were in hot demand. I don't know if the trucking industry itself would be enough to support satellite radio if there isn't enough interest out there, but I'm sold on the idea.
Sorry nothing contorted or extreme about my examples. I have seen them all to often. Sorry the company I work at can't afford multiple T1 just to let everybody surf and believe me they do surf.
Just what do you consider typical web surfing for the typical employee?
Jesus Christ! The examples you cite (car, FedEx account) both actually have some cost to the company that's significantly greater than zero. An employee spending some time on the web does not--if he weren't surfing, he'd be doing something else to slack off, and if he doesn't produce, as the capitalist toadies here have pointed out numerous times already, he can be fired.
So let me see, its okay for one user to go surf the web because that takes up so little resources. So what about 10, or 50, or 500? When does all that "surfing" start to add up to used bandwidth on the T1? Oh T1 cost nothing? What about the users that actually need stuff off the internet? Sure is a shame that a customer can't download a file from our ftp server because steve and his buds have the bandwidth tied up downloading the newest mp3 files. And All the crap a user downloads that screws up the workstation that they were on doesn't cost anything to fix does it?
P.S.: In answer to your first question, no, I've never worked in a corporate eye-tee environment. I prefer the company of intelligent, productive people to that of hyperpolitical, network nazi, tattle-tale tech wannabes that infest most corporate eye-tee environments.
Stop! I can't stop laughing! intelligent, productive people Where did you pull that one from?
I work for a small company that handles license production for a number of the software companies, most of the stuff for OEMs - one of them is Microsoft. (You know that little piece of paper with the cool hologram and bunch of numbers? We make them)
Now Microsoft is very critical about who gets access to the serial numbers and databases. They have there own servers, VLAN, and firewall at our plants for distribution of licenses. Think it would be pretty secure, right?
Well not really, they all got Code Red when it first came out. Now we were cleaning Code Red up on our own webserver (Yeah, I know, should have patched) Noticed that the MS server were infected, called up MS and told them what was up. They didn't believe us and told us the servers were already patched. Took a number of calls and yelling to get their boxes fixed.
The Best Scifi on now: Farscape I love the characters and the story lines. Yeah I know its runs into being a Buck Rogers show at times, but hey most scifi on TV is playing action-adventure hero card anyway. Farscape does it better than most out there.
Best Scifi ever: Babylon 5 Bar none, best scifi tv I have ever watched. Had great dialog, real believable characters (well as real as you are going to get in science fiction, and cool space battles.
Bad Scifi: Oh so many to pick from -
First Wave - Sorry for any fans, but I can't watch this show without bursting out laughing at the characters (oh Traci Lords;)
Dark Angel - Wish better for this one, but it just doesn't live up to the hype
Seven Days - I guess this is scifi, but mostly its crap.
Voyager - can't say anything that has not already been said. It sucked.
Many, many others but luckily they have been sent the way of cancellation
Worst Scifi ever - Earth Final Conflict This is one has a special place in my heart to hate. It started with such promise - cool story background, great characters, and it came from Gene Rodenberry himself (well his notes anyway) To bad it lost almost all the original characters, got really sucky new ones and the stories have turned into simply the most awful, cliched, ones possible. Most stories run with technobabble and episode resets that would make Voyager's writers blush.
I'm reserving judgment for Andromeda, to early to tell. I think if they get rid of that Harper character everything will turn out fine.
Of course free speech isn't an absolute. I'll bring up the tired but true example of yelling fire in a theater. Why wouldn't this apply to the net as well?
That being said, I really don't agree with Sunstein arguments. People have a tendency to hear what they want to hear and visit web sites that they will follow their line of thinking.
Yah I can just see it now, the Russians have their marked off side of the station and the USA theirs.
The bathroom will of course be on the Russian side and they will charge a tax for the Americans to use it. That's good, it will help them pay for their part of the ISS costs.
Hopefully we will all be able to setup an UN peacekeeping force to keep the quite...
Yep, Our company (automobile related) is currently shitting itself about the number of Office licenses we have (or don't have actually).
What is really bad, is that we send out send out Office Professional to all our users when most if not all our users will never use anything beyond Excel or Word.
Hey Star Office isn't sounding that bad right about now...
Okay, I think saying that Microsoft is dead is stupid but I do think they peg old Bill correctly. He is not in touch with reality and is surrounded with yes-men.
That being said, I think sooner or later he will start getting M$ in to trouble. Not by the government, but through poor business decisions and not seeing where the industry is actually going.
Rick McCallum as saying that he has gone through several "emotional stages" while reviewing the preliminary film. "At times, you have to face the truth of what you didn't get and what you hoped for," McCallum said. "The second stage is that you're amazed by all the things you did get that you didn't even think you got. And then the third stage is that you see certain things are infinitely better than you could have even imagined."
Its still a rough cut everybody - don't expect everything to be perfect. From what is said, it sounds like they still have a lot of work to do but it is far from a disaster.
Lucas is anal retentive anyway, so he is likely stressing no matter how good or bad the film is.
You always hear NASA saying a probe they are sending somewhere is designed to work for only a month or six or something like that and then the probe goes on working for years even decades longer. Are they purposefully saying a space probe has a short life just so they can look good when it last longer? Or do they build these things better than they knew?
Pioneer 6, I believe, is solar powered. I'm not sure really how long a nuclear battery will last on something like Voyager but if a probe has regular power from the sun, and is harden against radiation and temperature changes in space could it not last centuries?
I have been working with Exchange for about three years and recently did a roll out to about 1200 users. Here is what I like and don't like:
Pro:
For a MS product its got a good admin tool and pretty easy to configure.
Stable - regardless to what people say, when exchange has had trouble it has been more often NT related than exchange. This mostly comes down to how NT handles virtual memory, which is to say it doesn't. Don't go light on the RAM.
Con:
Security & Virus - I have yet to see a really good scanner that can catch everything. Yes get a good virus scanner on the server but even more important don't forget the desktop. Outlook security patch and a good anti-virus scanner can keep e-mail worms under control.
Slashdot Mirror
Umm...I'm pretty sure he means flashlights. In Europe anyway they call them torches don't know about Russia.
Before everybody get excited about JMS and his little trek film does anybody remember that little movie B5: Legend of the Rangers (LOR)?
Now I loved B5 the series, the movies, and Crusade, but LOR just plain sucked. I don't know if it was the SciFi channel screwing with movie too much or JMS had just run out of ideas, but it was Voyager bad.
So not everything JMS does is golden, really he was never that good at writing dialog, oh so melodramatic.
What really needs to happen is have Joss Weldon take over Star Trek, now Joss could make a good...oh wait, been done.
Frankly Farscape beat the hell out of all of them. God does the SciFi Chanel suck.
TV just isn't the place to have good scifi any more. Doesn't matter who's running it.
Spyware, Pop-up, and pop-unders haven't been much of a problem for me since I started using Mozilla. I did the same for my parents.
How about we just have shorter election times? Why does it take all year to elect a guy? I can see why back before TV and radio the need to take the time to do an election correctly, but now?
If the election time was just three months (from start of the campaign to the actual election) the politicians would have more time to actual do something than campaign. Also cheaper too...
So where do I send my check for donations for the Red Hat/Debian/IBM/Anybody elses' lawsuit against SCO? $32 Dollars? WTF? I gladly give 10x times that to put SCO out of business.
That would be us...we have been waiting for Quark to get off their butts and get their software ported to OSX
Yes the fun of upgrading 40 Mac's....I'll just slit my wrist now.
...Name any movie based on a video game that didn't totaly suck.
Hmm...yeah that is what I thought.
Actually quite intresting. I did a bit of searching:
Pictures of The Voynich Manuscript
Seems a running theroy is this man Roger Bacon may have written the book.
-You must not change the past! Don't do anything that effects anything. Unless you were suppose too, then for the love of God don't not do it.
I cannot speak with any experience on Sirus but I love my XM Radio. The audio quality is better than any local radio station (I would say nearly CD quality on most days). As for commercials about half the station don't have any and the other half have just a few, again much better than any local radio station (I live in the middle of Michigan, local stations are crappy).
As for cut outs you will get them going under bridges and tall buildings most for less than 5 - 10 seconds. I have found on that in a heavy downpour the signal will degrade but is still decent.
Not sure if it is true but new receivers hitting the market are going to support both Sirus and XM (at the same time I don't know). So if one of them tanks you will not be out the cost of a new receiver.
When I got the radio installed (Back in February) I asked how the sales where going for XM, I was told that many of the early adopters were truckers (makes sense) and that they were in hot demand. I don't know if the trucking industry itself would be enough to support satellite radio if there isn't enough interest out there, but I'm sold on the idea.
Game over man, this is crazy
Does this mean every American will have a hotmail account? Think of the spam...
Sorry nothing contorted or extreme about my examples. I have seen them all to often. Sorry the company I work at can't afford multiple T1 just to let everybody surf and believe me they do surf.
Just what do you consider typical web surfing for the typical employee?
Hmmm,
Jesus Christ! The examples you cite (car, FedEx account) both actually have some cost to the company that's significantly greater than zero. An employee spending some time on the web does not--if he weren't surfing, he'd be doing something else to slack off, and if he doesn't produce, as the capitalist toadies here have pointed out numerous times already, he can be fired.
So let me see, its okay for one user to go surf the web because that takes up so little resources. So what about 10, or 50, or 500? When does all that "surfing" start to add up to used bandwidth on the T1? Oh T1 cost nothing? What about the users that actually need stuff off the internet? Sure is a shame that a customer can't download a file from our ftp server because steve and his buds have the bandwidth tied up downloading the newest mp3 files. And All the crap a user downloads that screws up the workstation that they were on doesn't cost anything to fix does it?
P.S.: In answer to your first question, no, I've never worked in a corporate eye-tee environment. I prefer the company of intelligent, productive people to that of hyperpolitical, network nazi, tattle-tale tech wannabes that infest most corporate eye-tee environments.
Stop! I can't stop laughing! intelligent, productive people Where did you pull that one from?
I work for a small company that handles license production for a number of the software companies, most of the stuff for OEMs - one of them is Microsoft. (You know that little piece of paper with the cool hologram and bunch of numbers? We make them)
Now Microsoft is very critical about who gets access to the serial numbers and databases. They have there own servers, VLAN, and firewall at our plants for distribution of licenses. Think it would be pretty secure, right?
Well not really, they all got Code Red when it first came out. Now we were cleaning Code Red up on our own webserver (Yeah, I know, should have patched) Noticed that the MS server were infected, called up MS and told them what was up. They didn't believe us and told us the servers were already patched. Took a number of calls and yelling to get their boxes fixed.
I don't know if its really funny or really sad.
What the hell, I'll put my two cents in-
;)
The Best Scifi on now: Farscape
I love the characters and the story lines. Yeah I know its runs into being a Buck Rogers show at times, but hey most scifi on TV is playing action-adventure hero card anyway. Farscape does it better than most out there.
Best Scifi ever: Babylon 5
Bar none, best scifi tv I have ever watched. Had great dialog, real believable characters (well as real as you are going to get in science fiction, and cool space battles.
Bad Scifi: Oh so many to pick from -
First Wave - Sorry for any fans, but I can't watch this show without bursting out laughing at the characters (oh Traci Lords
Dark Angel - Wish better for this one, but it just doesn't live up to the hype
Seven Days - I guess this is scifi, but mostly its crap.
Voyager - can't say anything that has not already been said. It sucked.
Many, many others but luckily they have been sent the way of cancellation
Worst Scifi ever - Earth Final Conflict
This is one has a special place in my heart to hate. It started with such promise - cool story background, great characters, and it came from Gene Rodenberry himself (well his notes anyway) To bad it lost almost all the original characters, got really sucky new ones and the stories have turned into simply the most awful, cliched, ones possible. Most stories run with technobabble and episode resets that would make Voyager's writers blush.
I'm reserving judgment for Andromeda, to early to tell. I think if they get rid of that Harper character everything will turn out fine.
Of course free speech isn't an absolute. I'll bring up the tired but true example of yelling fire in a theater. Why wouldn't this apply to the net as well?
That being said, I really don't agree with Sunstein arguments. People have a tendency to hear what they want to hear and visit web sites that they will follow their line of thinking.
You can't force people to have an open mind
Yah I can just see it now, the Russians have their marked off side of the station and the USA theirs.
The bathroom will of course be on the Russian side and they will charge a tax for the Americans to use it. That's good, it will help them pay for their part of the ISS costs.
Hopefully we will all be able to setup an UN peacekeeping force to keep the quite...
Yep, Our company (automobile related) is currently shitting itself about the number of Office licenses we have (or don't have actually).
What is really bad, is that we send out send out Office Professional to all our users when most if not all our users will never use anything beyond Excel or Word.
Hey Star Office isn't sounding that bad right about now...
Hmmm...A reply from the man himself. Okay I'll bite:
Finding Forrester
Pollock
The Gift
To start with, and I'll grant you that Pollock is next to impossible to find. But, how about a review of the oscar nominees?
Oh well if all else fails you can review "Dude, where's my car?"
This might be a troll post but why is Katz posting reviews on second rate films? Doesn't he have actual article for us?
Mir will hit water @ 2001-03-18 04:52:04
Okay, I think saying that Microsoft is dead is stupid but I do think they peg old Bill correctly. He is not in touch with reality and is surrounded with yes-men.
That being said, I think sooner or later he will start getting M$ in to trouble. Not by the government, but through poor business decisions and not seeing where the industry is actually going.
So did Wired pay for the link too?
You always hear NASA saying a probe they are sending somewhere is designed to work for only a month or six or something like that and then the probe goes on working for years even decades longer. Are they purposefully saying a space probe has a short life just so they can look good when it last longer? Or do they build these things better than they knew?
Pioneer 6, I believe, is solar powered. I'm not sure really how long a nuclear battery will last on something like Voyager but if a probe has regular power from the sun, and is harden against radiation and temperature changes in space could it not last centuries?
I have been working with Exchange for about three years and recently did a roll out to about 1200 users. Here is what I like and don't like:
Pro:
For a MS product its got a good admin tool and pretty easy to configure.
Stable - regardless to what people say, when exchange has had trouble it has been more often NT related than exchange. This mostly comes down to how NT handles virtual memory, which is to say it doesn't. Don't go light on the RAM.
Con:
Security & Virus - I have yet to see a really good scanner that can catch everything. Yes get a good virus scanner on the server but even more important don't forget the desktop. Outlook security patch and a good anti-virus scanner can keep e-mail worms under control.