You make an excellent point. Half the reason SG-1 is as good as it is is RDA's being at the production helm. The show will not go downhill with him off the cast.
She was absolutely terrific. But all in all, this wasn't a great episode. It was very fluffy and full of plot holes (why didn't Daniel ask her what she wanted in the first place? why did General Hammond command the Prometheus mission and actually get away with being the SOLE CREWMAN to go over to the cargo ship and grab the processor crystals?). But the chemistry between Shanks and Black was awesome. I can't wait for more.
I watched 7 consecutive episodes of MacGyver over the past week.
You want to talk about boring? None of the classic RDA jokes, lame dialogue and fairly terrible action scenes.
In comparison, SG-1 has honest-to-God military consultants giving them tips about what combat is like (or at least, how humans fight in their armed forces:D).
Every character in SG-1 is still quite unique. One of the things I like about it is that it's fairly internally consistent with respect to some other sci-fi shows. It makes sense that after 8 years, the guys would have rubbed off on each other quite a bit. Hell, they're all the best of friends at this point (the actors AND the characters). Naturally RDA's extremely snarky attitude and sense of humor would rub off on Shanks (and O'Neill's on Dr. Jackson).
Claudia's chemistry with Michael Shanks is absolutely delicious.
This is some of the best news I've heard in Sci-Fi since I found out the BSG remake didn't suck at all (and was actually quite good). My two favorite scifi shows are merging!:D
the recent (within the last few years) proliferation of digital minilab systems which eliminated one of the few major roadblocks to digital photography acceptance over traditional film: the inability to make silver halide prints from digital.
I am a field technician for a major photographic company and am routinely awed by the quality of images that these machines can turn out.
with your rebuttal is that you fail to recognize that the source code for Diebold's voting machines has *not* been given governmental review of any kind. Diebold showed the government a black box and said, "look! electronic voting!" and the government bought it, no questions asked about the internal workings because the internal workings were a "trade secret."
You can't. Make the vote. A trade secret.
The internal workings of mechanical voting machines, at least, are well-documented and understood, at least according to my stepfather who works in the NYC Board of Elections.
Don't misunderstand me. Saying "Slashdot is a great thing that could be even better" is one thing, but the grandparent's comment was just one in an endless string of useless anti-Slashdot-editor invective about how all Slashdot editors are homosexual (because, you know, that's relevant, regardless of its truth or untruth), brain-dead, and devoid of any useful opinions.
I'm right there with you with having interest in improving the quality of Slashdot. The one thing I think this site would really benefit from is having some kind of "meta-Slashdot" discussion forum so that users could provide suggestions to the staff about potential improvements. Of course, short of emailing the staff, and in all likelihood most email to staff from users goes into a large bit bucket that is looked through only half-heartedly every other gibbous moon, there isn't much we can do to suggest something like this.
Why should it be surprising to ANYONE that a PAID EDITOR OF SLASHDOT gets a certain amount of leeway in editorializing in articles?
Guess what? This website doesn't just have editors around to pick and choose which articles are allowed to go to the front page. A well-written script could do that.
Jesus Fucking Christ. If you don't like it, LEAVE. Slashdot is NOT a part of the commons.
Does the Win32 build still suck? I swear, EVERY time I check it out, I discover that it's hopelessly broken or crashy or doesn't support AIM's new file transfer system that gets through NAT.
and not much in terms of labor expended for them to at least provide support via email or give him some kind of form letter describing what was going on.
This is how a company builds goodwill with its customers and potential customers, which is something AOL needs a lot of now that it's started laying off hundreds of employees a month.
"I use AIM/MSN/Yahoo (thank god for CenterICQ and Trillian) because a lot of people I know refuse to come on IRC, because "that's for hax0rs, you know...". So I need to have an account with every shitty IM network."
Who the hell actually SAYS this who knows WHAT IRC is? No one who actually knows anything about it is actually going to believe it's "only for hax0rs."
In my experience its client has always been unwieldy and chock-full of spammers. AIM's feature set is easily accessible and powerful. Using ICQ always made me feel more like I was sending text messages on my cell phone than "instant" messages, for some reason. And is there some way to get around the spam?
And even if they only recovered three, the remaining four's survivability would have increased because they would have been using less resources per unit of time in orbit.
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Well, it IS pathetic and meaningless, but that's not why.
What I mean by consecutive was that they were all one after another in the 3rd season.
And I really wanted to give it a chance, because I figured, "Dude, it's got RDA, how bad can it be?"
Apparently MacGyver was before he caught his stride.
You make an excellent point. Half the reason SG-1 is as good as it is is RDA's being at the production helm. The show will not go downhill with him off the cast.
She was absolutely terrific. But all in all, this wasn't a great episode. It was very fluffy and full of plot holes (why didn't Daniel ask her what she wanted in the first place? why did General Hammond command the Prometheus mission and actually get away with being the SOLE CREWMAN to go over to the cargo ship and grab the processor crystals?). But the chemistry between Shanks and Black was awesome. I can't wait for more.
I watched 7 consecutive episodes of MacGyver over the past week.
:D).
You want to talk about boring? None of the classic RDA jokes, lame dialogue and fairly terrible action scenes.
In comparison, SG-1 has honest-to-God military consultants giving them tips about what combat is like (or at least, how humans fight in their armed forces
But still, in my opinion, extremely enjoyable.
Every character in SG-1 is still quite unique. One of the things I like about it is that it's fairly internally consistent with respect to some other sci-fi shows. It makes sense that after 8 years, the guys would have rubbed off on each other quite a bit. Hell, they're all the best of friends at this point (the actors AND the characters). Naturally RDA's extremely snarky attitude and sense of humor would rub off on Shanks (and O'Neill's on Dr. Jackson).
Claudia's chemistry with Michael Shanks is absolutely delicious.
:D
This is some of the best news I've heard in Sci-Fi since I found out the BSG remake didn't suck at all (and was actually quite good). My two favorite scifi shows are merging!
the recent (within the last few years) proliferation of digital minilab systems which eliminated one of the few major roadblocks to digital photography acceptance over traditional film: the inability to make silver halide prints from digital.
I am a field technician for a major photographic company and am routinely awed by the quality of images that these machines can turn out.
Film IS going to go the way of the dodo.
with your rebuttal is that you fail to recognize that the source code for Diebold's voting machines has *not* been given governmental review of any kind. Diebold showed the government a black box and said, "look! electronic voting!" and the government bought it, no questions asked about the internal workings because the internal workings were a "trade secret."
You can't. Make the vote. A trade secret.
The internal workings of mechanical voting machines, at least, are well-documented and understood, at least according to my stepfather who works in the NYC Board of Elections.
... that we have actually PRIVATIZED THE VOTE.
Just let that sink in for a few minutes. We took the single most important tool of citizenship... and SOLD IT.
What the fuck is wrong with our country?
So what you're saying is it emulates an API. Right?
Sounds like an emulator to me.
Don't misunderstand me. Saying "Slashdot is a great thing that could be even better" is one thing, but the grandparent's comment was just one in an endless string of useless anti-Slashdot-editor invective about how all Slashdot editors are homosexual (because, you know, that's relevant, regardless of its truth or untruth), brain-dead, and devoid of any useful opinions.
I'm right there with you with having interest in improving the quality of Slashdot. The one thing I think this site would really benefit from is having some kind of "meta-Slashdot" discussion forum so that users could provide suggestions to the staff about potential improvements. Of course, short of emailing the staff, and in all likelihood most email to staff from users goes into a large bit bucket that is looked through only half-heartedly every other gibbous moon, there isn't much we can do to suggest something like this.
I don't see the problem! He is entitled by virtue of being an editor to say whatever the fuck he wants.
If you want to mod him down, don't read Slashdot. It's the ultimate moderation.
Why should it be surprising to ANYONE that a PAID EDITOR OF SLASHDOT gets a certain amount of leeway in editorializing in articles?
Guess what? This website doesn't just have editors around to pick and choose which articles are allowed to go to the front page. A well-written script could do that.
Jesus Fucking Christ. If you don't like it, LEAVE. Slashdot is NOT a part of the commons.
Jews (Ashkenazim, anyway) ARE white.
What makes iDEN so special that it seems to be the only technology one can base a PTT system on?
Both Sprint and Verizon's experiments with this feature have been unqualified disasters, as you note.
Eh?
I thought Cingular and AT&T both used same-frequency GSM. And now Cingular gets to ride in on that EDGE broadband stuff AT&T was doing...
Why's it going badly?
This is Slashdot. We don't welcome your dangerous "thoughts" here.
Get back in step and start trolling and being reactionary like everyone else.
Does the Win32 build still suck? I swear, EVERY time I check it out, I discover that it's hopelessly broken or crashy or doesn't support AIM's new file transfer system that gets through NAT.
and not much in terms of labor expended for them to at least provide support via email or give him some kind of form letter describing what was going on.
This is how a company builds goodwill with its customers and potential customers, which is something AOL needs a lot of now that it's started laying off hundreds of employees a month.
"I use AIM/MSN/Yahoo (thank god for CenterICQ and Trillian) because a lot of people I know refuse to come on IRC, because "that's for hax0rs, you know...". So I need to have an account with every shitty IM network."
Who the hell actually SAYS this who knows WHAT IRC is? No one who actually knows anything about it is actually going to believe it's "only for hax0rs."
In my experience its client has always been unwieldy and chock-full of spammers. AIM's feature set is easily accessible and powerful. Using ICQ always made me feel more like I was sending text messages on my cell phone than "instant" messages, for some reason. And is there some way to get around the spam?
I'm pretty sure this is wrong. It is *not* illegal to replace a phone's firmware. If you're not reverse-engineering it, you're not violating the DMCA.
What are you talking about?
This would still mean that there would not be a limit to the reproductive abilities of those who could still reproduce.
How does this result in long-term death?
I sure hope you're right. If you are it means Western culture will eventually spread everywhere and lower the birth rate throughout the world.
We don't need any more babies being born at the moment.
Four Soyuz capsules can recover seven astronauts.
And even if they only recovered three, the remaining four's survivability would have increased because they would have been using less resources per unit of time in orbit.