Removing the thing will restore the constitution to its original rule-set.
Really? If we get rid of the PATRIOT Act, there'll be no prohibition against slavery, the voting age will be 21, and the President will be able to serve an unlimited number of terms?
There's your problem -- you're buying from Amazon. According to DVD Price Search you can get the Farscape DVD for about $25 from DVD Pacific or Overstock. Still more expensive than the tape, but a reasonable markup for the special features.
But the real problem is that the Farscape DVDs are clusterfucks -- the MSRP for that set of five episodes is what I pay for an entire season of Buffy or Angel -- if Farscape were priced like that, the VHS sets would have to cost $8 to be a better buy.
Yes. DVDs are signifcantly cheaper. Some comparison points -- for about $10 you can get a single episode of Star Trek on tape; for $100 you can get an entire season of 26 episodes, which comes to less than $4 per episode -- and Star Trek is grossly overpriced compared to, say, Buffy the Vampire Slayer or 24, which cost half as much.
I just paid $50 for the Warner Bros. Controversial Classics Boxset, which contains seven movies. That's about $7 per movie, or about what you'd pay for a movie in the bargain bin at Wal-Mart, or a previously viewed tape at Blockbuster. Since these are obscure classics, you'd probably have to go to a specialty store and pay $20 apiece for the same films on tape. And the tape would probably contain a thirty year old master made for TV broadcast, as opposed to the all new restoration I'm getting here. Nor would the tapes contain commentaries -- including one featuring an archival interview with Fritz Lang about the movie Fury.
The other thing you have to remember, is that until DVDs became popular, it wasn't uncommon for new VHS tapes to be priced at $80.
I have a $450 PC (and that includes monitor and printer) that's currently running Firefox, Thunderbird, Shareaza, iPodder, Copernic, Gaim, Picasa, Folding@Home, Proxomitron, WinRoll, Yahoo Music Engine, Clipomatic, AbiWord, McAfee Firewall, and Norton Antivirus with no slow-down. Why, pray tell, would a top-of-the-line $1000 unit be better?
If you're not a gamer or animator, a cheap PC will do the job. Hell, I know a guy who's still getting by with X-terminal on a 486.
Hate to break it to you, but not everyone is doing it to rebel. Some of us do it because we enjoy the way it looks.
Yes, please keep it up. The rest of us are going to enjoy the way you look in thirty years when your bodies are covered with blue-green mishapened splotches and odd scars.
it is people like you who drag down our entire nation.
Wah! Wah! Someone doesn't like the things I do to my body! They're destroying the country!
Dude, get a grip. You have a right to dress like a complete idiot, and other people have the right to say you're dressing like a complete idiot. That's how this America thing works.
I'm pretty sure "Leia in the golden bikini" was an "on screen in Episodes I-VI" instance of it being obvious slavery was still very much around in the Empire.
Which is why I said, "[in] the Holy Trilogy only gangsters like Jabba have slaves.".
On top of which, it's reasonably fair to suggest the status quo existed except where noted, so if slavery existed in the Republic, it existed in the Empire because nobody clearly abolished it.
They didn't explicitly say there's no legal slavery in the Empire, so despite the fact that we never say any evidence of it in the Holy Trilogy, it must exist?
That's the appeal of the Dark Side: its power is seductive to those who are afraid of weakness.
And those who oppose slavery.
Note that the Jedi were so busy arbitrating trade disputes that they couldn't be bothered to do anything about the horrific conditions on Tatooine, but by the Holy Trilogy only gangsters like Jabba have slaves. (And before anyone tells me to go read some Extended Universe novel that clearly shows the Empire allowing slavery, I don't care, it's not canon -- only what's on screen in Episodes I-VI counts.)
I'm not sure it would be very good for what you call 'competition'.
IE dominates the web-browser market because it's free and good enough for Joe Consumer. People who use Photoshop by and large aren't Joe Consumer but professional graphic artists who have much higher standards for what constitutes "good enough." Just bundling Acrylic with Windows won't be enough to cut into PS's market-share.
No script now, just like there wasn't a script seven years ago when the rumor first started going aorund. Every couple years, some Simpsons staffer will mention that they'll be doing a feature film Real Soon Now, and nothing ever comes of it.
Tell me, who in the following list is a geek: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Joe Strummer, Mick Jagger, Roger Waters, Kid Rock, Joey Ramone. Composing music is not inherently geeky.
Jock: climb mountains, play basketball
The original claim was the geeks can master whatever they try.
Brains (i.e. intelligence) do indeed factor highly in composing music and writing poetry. Bach wrote extremely complicated works.. he is hailed as a genius.
So? Genius=/=geek. Ernest Hemmingway was a literary genius, but he sure as hell wasn't a geek. The majority of creative people are neither geeks nor jocks.
And too, the orignal claim was that geeks are "generally good at the things we try". If that were true, than the average geek should be able to become a successful musician; they can't.
You seem to have forgotten that geekiness has a fairly high correlation with IQ. Being a jock, less so. The *average* IQ is 100. . . .
This is counter to your arguments on "generally good at things we try"
You're assuming a correlation between intelligence and versatility that's not in evidence -- brains don't give you the ability to compose music, write poetry, climb mountains, play basketball, etc.
and "we have imagination"
You're assuming a correlation between intelligence and imagination that's not in evidence -- geeks are no more likely to be artists than anyone else.
Yeah, however the thought behind a no-folder system is that these old documents should then have had their metadata written to them by the application saving them,
And we all know how well programs are at figuring out what the metadata should say. 90% of my.doc files have the title "Sean O'Hara" because Word assumes the first line of text in a document is the title.
However, I think this system feels very fragile as so much depends on the metadata. Let's say it the metadata wasn't there for some reason, you didn't know how to best specify the keywords, or the metadata was somehow corrupted.
There's also the problem of remaining consistent with files created on different days, sometimes by different people -- on Monday I create a file where the metadata says "foo bar"; on Wednesday you give me one that says "bar, foo"; and on Friday I make another file that says "foo-bar".
For an ubsubstantiated myth it made it into a lot of text books.
So what? American textbooks are, by and large, crap. World history books often treat Moses and Mohammed as real historical figures, but that doesn't make them less unsubstantiated myths.
The facts of the smallpox blanket claims are this: Amherst at one point mentioned the idea of sending smallpox infected blankets to the Indians; some time later, there was a smallpox outbreak among the Indians. But there's no evidence that the idea was ever seriously considered, let alone acted upon, and lacking that, any inference of causation suffers from a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.
I've experienced price changes within the span of five minutes, or less. I'll be surfing around to sites, comparing prices, and I'll return to a site I've just visited, and they'll increase the price on me
This is why God created tabbed browsing -- you can keep one site open while you check the price on the next.
Big deal. Everyone in each group is the same person
According to the theory of the person who compiled the list. And there's abolutely no chance -- nuh-uh, none -- that these passwords might be common because they're common words.
Frankly, I don't care if they rape nuns, kill puppies for sport, and eat kittens for breakfast. You should not compromise security, even this trivially, for any reason.
If you were so stupid as to use a common word for a password and couldn't even be bothered to do something like change it to "pass45word" then you deserve whatever happens.
It's Wikipedia, not Amazon or PayPal. Most people don't care enough to use a strong password.
Babylon 5 and The Outer Limits aren't SciFi originals, which is what the parent poster was complaining about. And for that matter, I don't recall the last time SciFi ran B5. A couple years at least.
Schools ought to provide lunches for all children. The current situation where some kids get subsidized lunches while others bring their own lunches is one more method of separating children into castes within the school and that, in turn, leads to animosity.
So let's force all the kids to eat crappy, school provided cafeteria food!
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Removing the thing will restore the constitution to its original rule-set.
Really? If we get rid of the PATRIOT Act, there'll be no prohibition against slavery, the voting age will be 21, and the President will be able to serve an unlimited number of terms?
There's your problem -- you're buying from Amazon. According to DVD Price Search you can get the Farscape DVD for about $25 from DVD Pacific or Overstock. Still more expensive than the tape, but a reasonable markup for the special features.
But the real problem is that the Farscape DVDs are clusterfucks -- the MSRP for that set of five episodes is what I pay for an entire season of Buffy or Angel -- if Farscape were priced like that, the VHS sets would have to cost $8 to be a better buy.
PRICE!!!! Have you priced VHS compared to DVDs?
Yes. DVDs are signifcantly cheaper. Some comparison points -- for about $10 you can get a single episode of Star Trek on tape; for $100 you can get an entire season of 26 episodes, which comes to less than $4 per episode -- and Star Trek is grossly overpriced compared to, say, Buffy the Vampire Slayer or 24, which cost half as much.
I just paid $50 for the Warner Bros. Controversial Classics Boxset, which contains seven movies. That's about $7 per movie, or about what you'd pay for a movie in the bargain bin at Wal-Mart, or a previously viewed tape at Blockbuster. Since these are obscure classics, you'd probably have to go to a specialty store and pay $20 apiece for the same films on tape. And the tape would probably contain a thirty year old master made for TV broadcast, as opposed to the all new restoration I'm getting here. Nor would the tapes contain commentaries -- including one featuring an archival interview with Fritz Lang about the movie Fury.
The other thing you have to remember, is that until DVDs became popular, it wasn't uncommon for new VHS tapes to be priced at $80.
These cheap pc's are nothing but junk.
I have a $450 PC (and that includes monitor and printer) that's currently running Firefox, Thunderbird, Shareaza, iPodder, Copernic, Gaim, Picasa, Folding@Home, Proxomitron, WinRoll, Yahoo Music Engine, Clipomatic, AbiWord, McAfee Firewall, and Norton Antivirus with no slow-down. Why, pray tell, would a top-of-the-line $1000 unit be better?
If you're not a gamer or animator, a cheap PC will do the job. Hell, I know a guy who's still getting by with X-terminal on a 486.
Hate to break it to you, but not everyone is doing it to rebel. Some of us do it because we enjoy the way it looks.
Yes, please keep it up. The rest of us are going to enjoy the way you look in thirty years when your bodies are covered with blue-green mishapened splotches and odd scars.
it is people like you who drag down our entire nation.
Wah! Wah! Someone doesn't like the things I do to my body! They're destroying the country!
Dude, get a grip. You have a right to dress like a complete idiot, and other people have the right to say you're dressing like a complete idiot. That's how this America thing works.
I'm pretty sure "Leia in the golden bikini" was an "on screen in Episodes I-VI" instance of it being obvious slavery was still very much around in the Empire.
Which is why I said, "[in] the Holy Trilogy only gangsters like Jabba have slaves.".
On top of which, it's reasonably fair to suggest the status quo existed except where noted, so if slavery existed in the Republic, it existed in the Empire because nobody clearly abolished it.
They didn't explicitly say there's no legal slavery in the Empire, so despite the fact that we never say any evidence of it in the Holy Trilogy, it must exist?
That's the appeal of the Dark Side: its power is seductive to those who are afraid of weakness.
And those who oppose slavery.
Note that the Jedi were so busy arbitrating trade disputes that they couldn't be bothered to do anything about the horrific conditions on Tatooine, but by the Holy Trilogy only gangsters like Jabba have slaves. (And before anyone tells me to go read some Extended Universe novel that clearly shows the Empire allowing slavery, I don't care, it's not canon -- only what's on screen in Episodes I-VI counts.)
I'm not sure it would be very good for what you call 'competition'.
IE dominates the web-browser market because it's free and good enough for Joe Consumer. People who use Photoshop by and large aren't Joe Consumer but professional graphic artists who have much higher standards for what constitutes "good enough." Just bundling Acrylic with Windows won't be enough to cut into PS's market-share.
Jimmy crack kernel and I don't care
Jimmy crack kernel and I don't care,
Jimmy crack kernel and I don't care,
McAfee's gone away.
No script now, just like there wasn't a script seven years ago when the rumor first started going aorund. Every couple years, some Simpsons staffer will mention that they'll be doing a feature film Real Soon Now, and nothing ever comes of it.
Geek: compose music, write poetry
Tell me, who in the following list is a geek: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Joe Strummer, Mick Jagger, Roger Waters, Kid Rock, Joey Ramone. Composing music is not inherently geeky.
Jock: climb mountains, play basketball
The original claim was the geeks can master whatever they try.
Brains (i.e. intelligence) do indeed factor highly in composing music and writing poetry. Bach wrote extremely complicated works.. he is hailed as a genius.
So? Genius=/=geek. Ernest Hemmingway was a literary genius, but he sure as hell wasn't a geek. The majority of creative people are neither geeks nor jocks.
And too, the orignal claim was that geeks are "generally good at the things we try". If that were true, than the average geek should be able to become a successful musician; they can't.
You seem to have forgotten that geekiness has a fairly high correlation with IQ. Being a jock, less so. The *average* IQ is 100. . . . This is counter to your arguments on "generally good at things we try"
You're assuming a correlation between intelligence and versatility that's not in evidence -- brains don't give you the ability to compose music, write poetry, climb mountains, play basketball, etc.
and "we have imagination"
You're assuming a correlation between intelligence and imagination that's not in evidence -- geeks are no more likely to be artists than anyone else.
And when you can't remember in which folder did you put it?
A logical file system shouldn't require memorization.
While this is true, people have a limited amount of space in their brain to remember where they put their files.
What's to remember? I want to watch Amber Lynn's Adventures in Anal Land -- My Documents/Media/pr0n/anal. Simple!
Yeah, however the thought behind a no-folder system is that these old documents should then have had their metadata written to them by the application saving them,
.doc files have the title "Sean O'Hara" because Word assumes the first line of text in a document is the title.
And we all know how well programs are at figuring out what the metadata should say. 90% of my
However, I think this system feels very fragile as so much depends on the metadata. Let's say it the metadata wasn't there for some reason, you didn't know how to best specify the keywords, or the metadata was somehow corrupted.
There's also the problem of remaining consistent with files created on different days, sometimes by different people -- on Monday I create a file where the metadata says "foo bar"; on Wednesday you give me one that says "bar, foo"; and on Friday I make another file that says "foo-bar".
For an ubsubstantiated myth it made it into a lot of text books.
So what? American textbooks are, by and large, crap. World history books often treat Moses and Mohammed as real historical figures, but that doesn't make them less unsubstantiated myths.
The facts of the smallpox blanket claims are this: Amherst at one point mentioned the idea of sending smallpox infected blankets to the Indians; some time later, there was a smallpox outbreak among the Indians. But there's no evidence that the idea was ever seriously considered, let alone acted upon, and lacking that, any inference of causation suffers from a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.
I've experienced price changes within the span of five minutes, or less. I'll be surfing around to sites, comparing prices, and I'll return to a site I've just visited, and they'll increase the price on me
This is why God created tabbed browsing -- you can keep one site open while you check the price on the next.
Froogle's okay, but specialized sites like DVD Price Search are better since you can view multiple items at a time in a spread-sheet style.
Name one innocent user whose password was compromised in that YEAR OLD list.
So shoddy security practices are okay so long as the compromise remains potential only?
The point is that this is Wikipedia, I do not expect my info to be secure,
That's a bad attitude to take. You might not care whether your account is secure, but you should still expect it to be.
Big deal. Everyone in each group is the same person
According to the theory of the person who compiled the list. And there's abolutely no chance -- nuh-uh, none -- that these passwords might be common because they're common words.
Trolls deserve nothing.
Frankly, I don't care if they rape nuns, kill puppies for sport, and eat kittens for breakfast. You should not compromise security, even this trivially, for any reason.
If you were so stupid as to use a common word for a password and couldn't even be bothered to do something like change it to "pass45word" then you deserve whatever happens.
It's Wikipedia, not Amazon or PayPal. Most people don't care enough to use a strong password.
Farscape
Stargate SG-1
Stargate Atlantis
Battlestar Galactica
Babylon-5
Outer Limits
Babylon 5 and The Outer Limits aren't SciFi originals, which is what the parent poster was complaining about. And for that matter, I don't recall the last time SciFi ran B5. A couple years at least.
Schools ought to provide lunches for all children. The current situation where some kids get subsidized lunches while others bring their own lunches is one more method of separating children into castes within the school and that, in turn, leads to animosity.
So let's force all the kids to eat crappy, school provided cafeteria food!