It was one of the first shows to be shot in 16:9 before there was HDTV!
Yes. A pity though that much of the CGI shots were rendered 4:3 and had to be cropped for widescreen. Or at least when it was shown on the Sci-Fi Channel in widescreen for the first time.
The series is preloaded in my 400-disc DVD changer but I haven't watched them yet.
Babylon 5 pioneered daring and creative storytelling techniques, such as trapping two characters who hate each other in an elevator.
That would be "Convictions".
They're called bottle episodes but they're usually done for budgetary reasons. Trap the characters inside a single set (bottle them up) and play them off each other.
A benefit from saving on sets, locations, and FX is that more money can go into the scripted dialog and character development, though this is more of an example of a bottle scene or situation, and is better for it. Still, that episode has one of my favorite quotes:
"`Go be the ambassador to Babylon 5,' they say. `Will be an easy assignment.' Ah, I hate my life." "So do I." "Shut UP!" [zip]
Why would they roll this out during the Summer rerun season? My TiVos are sitting practically idle, only just now picking up new episodes on Sci-Fi Channel, one anime episode a week on Cartoon Network, and recording The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Réport, and they're accumulating unwatched.
Instead I'm finally getting through a backlog of unwatched DVDs, and not via the TiVo with the DVD drive.
Man! How long did it take evolution to figure that one out?
What time is it?
(Did you meant figure out how to do it, or figure out how it does it?)
I'm anticipating the time when we realize that life and evolution is an example of Reflections on Trusting Trust and thus that the origin of some aspects of DNA and life may be unknowable, and yet explicable, and thus not be of divine origin.
Assuming that a sitting president can't pardon himself, upon an opposing party winning the election, before the power transfer the president pardons the vice president, resigns, and then the pardoned vice president is sworn in as president and pardons the former president.
I'd only be interested in this service if they would offer movies that I couldn't get on DVD otherwise, such as content in widescreen that I used to be able to see in pan-and-scan on HBO like (in no particular order) Looker, TAG: The Assassination Game, Night of the Comet, I Come in Peace (preferably over the its retitled version Dark Angel), Electric Dreams, Deadly Friend, Moontrap (better than Virus), Terminal Entry, and The Squeeze. Only a couple of those have I gotten off TV, and they still require rematteing (assuming that they are open matte instead of pan & scan).
And that's just the movies. I doubt we'll ever see such TV series as TV 101 or Whiz Kids released either.
The "dregs" I want to see made downloadable are the ones that the studios don't feel would be profitable enough to sell on prepressed DVDs. Studios, put your whole catalog online and see what people are still interested in. Perhaps it may even convince you that there's a market for stinkers (Terminal Entry is pretty bad).
Good Lord, there has to be an end to this. Every company with an online frontend thinks they can create some kind of social-networking infrastructure to "draw the hip kids in" with.
Not as confused as the DVD player manufacturers that still label the button "Rewind" just in case you don't know what the symbol means. Some do better by labeling it "Reverse" or "Back".
"Do not try to rewind the TiVo. That's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth." "What truth?" "There is no spool."
Hardly anyone "dials" a phone number anymore either.
[T]he code is 'complete with new corner cases and defects' in the networking component.... This latest report from Symantec brings attention to Microsoft's trustworthy computing campaign, and shows how it will be a long way before it is ready for the mainstream.
Considering whose Trust the Computing is really intended to be Worthy of(*), I welcome the defects. They will be avenues for me to reassert my rightful control.
(*) Hint: not you, and sorry about the dangling preposition.
My problems have mainly been with Pyro Firewire enclosures. After getting several varieties of these enclosures with different back panel configurations, one of them wouldn't work with the size of drive placed in it. I'd feared I'd lost a lot of captured video, but the drive worked inside the G3 case. I found I could use some of the external power supplies with the enclosure but not others, but no distinguishing characteristics between the power bricks, and all had identical connectors. I only trust ATAPI drives to them now.
Last enclosure I've used is an Adaptec, but I kept getting dropped frames in Final Cut Pro using it (patched to run on a non-AGP Mac). I just couldn't get fast enough drive access to keep up. Internal drives don't give me any problems.
But come to think about it, my Firewire ports on the G3 died recently and I had to get a PCI card for Firewire instead to access the Canopus DV bridge. Still 400, not 800. Using the new interface may address the access speed problems I had.
And now I'm about to fit a 550W ATX power supply into the G3 case. then add a extra multidrive bay to one of the existing bays in the case (I can fit 4 drives nose down in the front drive bay using this bay, after moving the power switch, though I won't be putting in that many drives due to cooling issues). I found a web page that says I need to cut a wire to not send -5V to Gnd, but the supply I have doesn't even have a wire to that pin anyway. Could it be because this supply is designed for both 20- and 24-pin power? I may not even need the ATX power extension cable.
I've already learned (the hard way) about this particular G3 model's inability to have two drives on one of its built-in ATA drive connectors. It corrupted both master and slave. I have put in an ATA PCI card and only use the built-in interface for the (relatively small) boot drive and DVD burner.
Oh if only there were instructions on how to safely slave two power supplies together, I could use one for the motherboard and DVD burner and the other dedicated just to powering drives in a second case. There are devices you can hook up to a power supply to power them up for testing purposes without a motherboard, but they warn that using them for extended periods will burn out the power supply.
As you see I can barely get by using the G3 for SD DV video, but I know I'm going to want to start experimenting with HD. It sounds like it really has to be a G5 or Intel to do that.
The big issue for me is access to very large drives. My hobby is video editing and DV capture needs lots of space. I'm about to plug adapt a higher ATX power supply into my G3 just so I can have power to drive more internal ATA hard drives. (I've been having bad luck with Firewire enclosures.)
On Parallels Desktop $30 rebate w/Windows (XP Home or Pro), check Amazon.com. They cite the rebate on the product page.
My general use machine at home is a Blue & White G3 upgraded to a 550 MHz G4. I've found that the videos at ABC.com require I hold down the mouse button to get a non-zero framerate. I never thought I'd need to grip a Dead Man's Switch to watch TV. My mother's eMac is faster than my machine.
I need a new desktop Mac. I'd buy a Quad Core G5 now if I knew an Intel Core Duo card for it that would let me run future Intel Mac binaries was coming. Especially if it meant I could have 64-bit quad core and 32-bit dual core running simultaneously. Instead I'm torturing myself waiting for the new Intel desktop Mac announcement and wondering if I should pre-purchase Parallels Desktop (there's a $30 rebate w/purchase of Windows that expires August 15, not applicable to the downloadable option), and I don't even know how many internal drive bays the new desktop model will have.
Then again, if the coach is implemented as a fellow player on your team...
"What are they doing?" "What?" "I said, what are they doing now?" "God damn, I am getting so sick of answering that question." "You have the fucking rifle, I can't see shit. Don't bitch at me, because I'm not going to just sit up here and play with my dick all day." "OK, OK, look. They're just standing there and talking. OK? That's all they're doing. That's all they ever do, is just stand there and talk. That's what they were doing last week, that's what they were doing when you asked me five minutes ago. So five minutes from now, when you ask me, `What are they doing?', my answer's gonna be, `They're still just talking, and they're still just standing there.'"
"What are they talking about?" "You know what? I fucking hate you."
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Any opportunity to refile once nation... out of danger?
It was one of the first shows to be shot in 16:9 before there was HDTV!
Yes. A pity though that much of the CGI shots were rendered 4:3 and had to be cropped for widescreen. Or at least when it was shown on the Sci-Fi Channel in widescreen for the first time.
The series is preloaded in my 400-disc DVD changer but I haven't watched them yet.
Only someone who was paying attention two years previously would have realized what the deal was.
If only if they hadn't replayed the scene as a flashback at that very moment would that be true.
Babylon 5 pioneered daring and creative storytelling techniques, such as trapping two characters who hate each other in an elevator.
That would be "Convictions".
They're called bottle episodes but they're usually done for budgetary reasons. Trap the characters inside a single set (bottle them up) and play them off each other.
A benefit from saving on sets, locations, and FX is that more money can go into the scripted dialog and character development, though this is more of an example of a bottle scene or situation, and is better for it. Still, that episode has one of my favorite quotes:
"`Go be the ambassador to Babylon 5,' they say. `Will be an easy assignment.' Ah, I hate my life."
"So do I."
"Shut UP!" [zip]
But then there's also this one [wav].
Why would they roll this out during the Summer rerun season? My TiVos are sitting practically idle, only just now picking up new episodes on Sci-Fi Channel, one anime episode a week on Cartoon Network, and recording The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Réport, and they're accumulating unwatched.
Instead I'm finally getting through a backlog of unwatched DVDs, and not via the TiVo with the DVD drive.
And you trust ancient peoples who didn't even realize that the world was not flat to determine that the entire planet was flooded?
Man! How long did it take evolution to figure that one out?
What time is it?
(Did you meant figure out how to do it, or figure out how it does it?)
I'm anticipating the time when we realize that life and evolution is an example of Reflections on Trusting Trust and thus that the origin of some aspects of DNA and life may be unknowable, and yet explicable, and thus not be of divine origin.
If you live at one of the poles, you can eat anything you want 6 months out of the year!
Best to have a summer home in the opposite hemisphere too, as otherwise that doesn't leave much to eat during the other 6 months of the year.
Imagine a mobile game that alerts you that a bomb is going to go off in 24 hours.
Summon Intern!
20% that you get an honest election. 19.9% of that say you don't get much of a choice because both candidates are the worst kind of scum.
I don't know, 3.98% seems a rather small group holding that opinion (19.9% of 20%).
Assuming that a sitting president can't pardon himself, upon an opposing party winning the election, before the power transfer the president pardons the vice president, resigns, and then the pardoned vice president is sworn in as president and pardons the former president.
I'd only be interested in this service if they would offer movies that I couldn't get on DVD otherwise, such as content in widescreen that I used to be able to see in pan-and-scan on HBO like (in no particular order) Looker, TAG: The Assassination Game, Night of the Comet, I Come in Peace (preferably over the its retitled version Dark Angel), Electric Dreams, Deadly Friend, Moontrap (better than Virus), Terminal Entry, and The Squeeze. Only a couple of those have I gotten off TV, and they still require rematteing (assuming that they are open matte instead of pan & scan).
And that's just the movies. I doubt we'll ever see such TV series as TV 101 or Whiz Kids released either.
The "dregs" I want to see made downloadable are the ones that the studios don't feel would be profitable enough to sell on prepressed DVDs. Studios, put your whole catalog online and see what people are still interested in. Perhaps it may even convince you that there's a market for stinkers (Terminal Entry is pretty bad).
Good Lord, there has to be an end to this. Every company with an online frontend thinks they can create some kind of social-networking infrastructure to "draw the hip kids in" with.
It's their attempt at social network engineering.
I've been doing it in TinyMUCKs ever since you could attach links to objects other than rooms.
How do you rewind a DVD? I'm confused.
Not as confused as the DVD player manufacturers that still label the button "Rewind" just in case you don't know what the symbol means. Some do better by labeling it "Reverse" or "Back".
"Do not try to rewind the TiVo. That's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth."
"What truth?"
"There is no spool."
Hardly anyone "dials" a phone number anymore either.
(*) Hint: not you, and sorry about the dangling preposition.
Then shouldn't those other articles be linked as related articles?
And the dogcow says, "Moof!"
My problems have mainly been with Pyro Firewire enclosures. After getting several varieties of these enclosures with different back panel configurations, one of them wouldn't work with the size of drive placed in it. I'd feared I'd lost a lot of captured video, but the drive worked inside the G3 case. I found I could use some of the external power supplies with the enclosure but not others, but no distinguishing characteristics between the power bricks, and all had identical connectors. I only trust ATAPI drives to them now.
Last enclosure I've used is an Adaptec, but I kept getting dropped frames in Final Cut Pro using it (patched to run on a non-AGP Mac). I just couldn't get fast enough drive access to keep up. Internal drives don't give me any problems.
But come to think about it, my Firewire ports on the G3 died recently and I had to get a PCI card for Firewire instead to access the Canopus DV bridge. Still 400, not 800. Using the new interface may address the access speed problems I had.
And now I'm about to fit a 550W ATX power supply into the G3 case. then add a extra multidrive bay to one of the existing bays in the case (I can fit 4 drives nose down in the front drive bay using this bay, after moving the power switch, though I won't be putting in that many drives due to cooling issues). I found a web page that says I need to cut a wire to not send -5V to Gnd, but the supply I have doesn't even have a wire to that pin anyway. Could it be because this supply is designed for both 20- and 24-pin power? I may not even need the ATX power extension cable.
I've already learned (the hard way) about this particular G3 model's inability to have two drives on one of its built-in ATA drive connectors. It corrupted both master and slave. I have put in an ATA PCI card and only use the built-in interface for the (relatively small) boot drive and DVD burner.
Oh if only there were instructions on how to safely slave two power supplies together, I could use one for the motherboard and DVD burner and the other dedicated just to powering drives in a second case. There are devices you can hook up to a power supply to power them up for testing purposes without a motherboard, but they warn that using them for extended periods will burn out the power supply.
As you see I can barely get by using the G3 for SD DV video, but I know I'm going to want to start experimenting with HD. It sounds like it really has to be a G5 or Intel to do that.
The big issue for me is access to very large drives. My hobby is video editing and DV capture needs lots of space. I'm about to plug adapt a higher ATX power supply into my G3 just so I can have power to drive more internal ATA hard drives. (I've been having bad luck with Firewire enclosures.)
On Parallels Desktop $30 rebate w/Windows (XP Home or Pro), check Amazon.com. They cite the rebate on the product page.
shouldn't it be something closer to "Virtually all elements..."
If it were, then it wouldn't be an accurate quote.
"What?!"
("Tell him about the hotel room bibles.")
("Mmm.")
("Yeah, I'm coming to that.")
Maybe, just maybe, if companies stopped trying to be all exclusive and monopolistic people would appreciate their products.
Yeah, and maybe I'm a Chinese jet pilot.
My general use machine at home is a Blue & White G3 upgraded to a 550 MHz G4. I've found that the videos at ABC.com require I hold down the mouse button to get a non-zero framerate. I never thought I'd need to grip a Dead Man's Switch to watch TV. My mother's eMac is faster than my machine.
I need a new desktop Mac. I'd buy a Quad Core G5 now if I knew an Intel Core Duo card for it that would let me run future Intel Mac binaries was coming. Especially if it meant I could have 64-bit quad core and 32-bit dual core running simultaneously. Instead I'm torturing myself waiting for the new Intel desktop Mac announcement and wondering if I should pre-purchase Parallels Desktop (there's a $30 rebate w/purchase of Windows that expires August 15, not applicable to the downloadable option), and I don't even know how many internal drive bays the new desktop model will have.
"Hi, and welcome to Half-Life 2: Portal. I'm Dave, and this is VAL."
Then again, if the coach is implemented as a fellow player on your team...
"What are they doing?"
"What?"
"I said, what are they doing now?"
"God damn, I am getting so sick of answering that question."
"You have the fucking rifle, I can't see shit. Don't bitch at me, because I'm not going to just sit up here and play with my dick all day."
"OK, OK, look. They're just standing there and talking. OK? That's all they're doing. That's all they ever do, is just stand there and talk. That's what they were doing last week, that's what they were doing when you asked me five minutes ago. So five minutes from now, when you ask me, `What are they doing?', my answer's gonna be, `They're still just talking, and they're still just standing there.'"
"What are they talking about?"
"You know what? I fucking hate you."
Yeah, maybe not.