As much as you want to bitch about your opinion of William Shatner's acting, no one else could have embodied the character of Captain Kirk as he. Jeffery Hunter, while probably a better actor, would have been as forgotten as the captain of Time Tunnel by now.
Face it, the entire cast of Gilligans Island will be known as those characters forever as much as Thomas F Wilson will be forever known as Biff Tannen. Those performances would be nothing without the contributions of those actors. How many Gingers were there?
Star Trek would be just another crappy 60's Sci Fi show without Shatners contribution.
Probably the best actor to reinvent himself each decade would be Lee Majors. He has been iconic in his roles in Big Valley of the 60s, the Six Million Dollar Man of the 70s, and the Fall Guy in the 80s and was married to THE hottie of the 70s.
The only one who comes close (and forgive me) would be David Hasselhoff of Knight Rider and Baywatch fame. (and I can personally attest that Hoff is a wuss in real life)
Most of the Trek episodes weren't that good anyway so any 'bad acting' fixing isn't going to matter. I'd like to see how they fix the western episode and if they remove the wires from those creatures in the halloween episode.
If you were an actor, how would you handle the following episodes: -evil twin episode -evil twin in another universe episode -old age episode -episode with a guy in love with a bunch of lights -a greek god episode -episode where a main character loses his brain -halloween episode -western episode -Nazi episode -Chicago gangster episode -Indian episode -Abraham Lincoln episode -Hippie episode -episode where they're all in an empty room with some chick that heals -the episode with the midget in some greek setting with the first interracial kiss
Yeah, god bless William Shatner and the stuff he had to go through.
When is theivery justified when it is between 2 private citizens?
If someone has no respect for my property or space, they're a subhuman. A rapist is the same as a thief with the added tag that it is sexual in nature. A murderer is a thief that will take what cannot be replaced.
My above list is also known as a dreg of society and we have rules about their removal from society. It is clear cut that people the likes of Charles Manson, Jeffery Dahmer, and your average car jacker have no place in decent society.
My question to manufacturers is why hasn't someone made a component in HD card? That would cause quite a stir and be a boon for the DIYers. I think that is when I jump in on the MythTV bandwagon.
It is just as much a Hitachi spec as it is a Sony spec. Sony just wanted a hand in forming a spec, not dictating what it should be.
The only thing that set Sony apart when the group was formed in 2002 was that Sony was not only a manufacturer but also a content provider. Now Apple is in the same camp as Sony.
I understand the Sony hatred but to call Blu-Ray a Sony product just shows ignorance. It's like believing that spending $39.95 on some late night infomercial will make you rich/healthy/attractive.
Sony will manufacture BD players, then that will be a Sony product, otherwise, it's not.
That UMD ship has sailed and is sinking with the Sony flag on it. If I wanted to manufacture a player or media in the UMD format, I would have to pay Sony for a license.
Sony's part of Blu-Ray is only the spearhead, not the license holder. In other words, Sony got together with other media companies and said "Lets come up with a format to hold High Definition media" and nothing else.
Sony, by appointment by the above Blu-ray Disc Association Board of Directors as the Blu-ray Disc License Entity is responsible for Blu-ray Disc Information Agreement (IA) and Blu-ray Disc License Agreement.
Why the hell do you idiots equate Blu-Ray with Sony?
Sony == Rootkits, I get that. Blu-Ray != Sony HD-DVD == Toshiba all the way Blu-Ray == Sony as much as Blu-Ray == Apple == Mitsubishi == Hitachi == LG == you name it.
Last I checked, Blu-Ray is everybody that is media important except Toshiba. HD-DVD is a smidgen of media companies and electronic wanna bes (except for Toshiba) that happens to be market friendly sooner.
I 100% agree that one of them needs to die first nad if Blu-ray has lillies, then so be it. I really don't care which one makes it. As I see it, HD-DVD has a market friendly name that will convey to anyone to knows what it means. The amount of people that care about capacity on the disc amounts to the amount of people that bitch if a website isn't Safari or Opera friendly.
I really thought that DVD-R/DVD+R would matter but it doesn't anymore. This won't matter anymore in 5 years and I'll probably get a player after they hit below $200 as I did with standard DVD.
Hospitals actually have payment plans with interest far below what any credit card offers.
I've had 2 kids at $10,000 each - Insurance covered 80% so I was out of pocket $2,000 each which wasn't due until 5 months after the procedure and with a very liberal and affordable payment plan.
$2,000 isn't that much to plan for especially when A) there is a pregnancy so there is 9 months to plan for raising $10,000 in the first place if needed B) You have a 5 month window AFTER delivery to actually pay what is due
Obviously, a surgery will be more than a typical baby delivery but I'd look at hospital payment plans over any credit card payment terms.
When smoking is actually illegal and peanuts are banned everywhere.
After blind people drive, people with that ever so active 'toe tapping' when one leg is over the other knee will start to get citations for being offensive.
Shop elsewhere. Shopping at Target isn't the life and death of anyone much less making sure some 'miracle' drug website is 508 complaint.
As utilites nickel and dime us to death, I've noticed a recent trend.
Some utilites (and/or services), like cable for instance, want to be the monopoly and offer a cheaper rate for phone service than the local Bell - provided you have at least 2 of their services. The local Bell will offer TV programming, provided from a cable competitor, cheaper than the competitor can offer it as long as you have 2 services from the Bell, i.e. phone and TV.
OK, fine, so that's the new game with these types of services, pick and choose, but find a bundle from one source.
Now look at utilities.
My natural gas bill was $35 last month. That is $20 for delivery service and $15 for therms used. That $20 delivery service is the same every month, summer or winter. My electricity bill has a $25 'just because you're a customer' charge every single month, no matter how many kWhs I use.
I understand the need for the service but when the 'customer' charge is 1/3 of the bill, I take notice. I didn't notice when it was 10% and less of the bill.
Gambling is akin to entertainment. You pay a fee for entertainment, you might get some back but it isn't guaranteed. Prostitution is a service that is outlawed in the US. No goods are transferred.
Guns are goods and there are international laws against goods.
So arrest the gamblers, not the person who is running a legal business. That is the only way to get people involved enough to care about their legislation.
I would say cigarette smoking is much closer to alcohol prohibition.
It sure is getting there, and I hate it.
I'm not a smoker and I hate being around smoke, if you want to smoke, that's your business. I don't see why a business that wants to cater to smokers isn't able to in some municipalities. I can understand banning smoking in libraries, museums, airplanes, and buses but come on, bars and nightclubs? If a smoker wants to smoke in a public park, let them. It's a public place meant for everyone. You can't please everyone.
People eat peanut butter sandwiches, they shouldn't have to cater to people with nut allergies if they want to have a picnic in a public place. People exist with shellfish allergies as well; Are peanut, wheat, shellfish, and toe tapping going to be outlawed next?
The problem I have, or maybe I haven't figured it out yet, is that 95% of spam (that we get) comes from RIPE and APNIC addresses that are using for hire SMTP servers. The other 5% is from zombie machines on charter.net, rr.com, and other ISPs in the US.
How can I just block out IP addresses instead of domain names without using an external firewall?
Well, you let it go without reinstalling it for 3 years. You can't tell me that your registry bloat, poor paging, and slow boots aren't slowing you down, you're just putting up with it.
That's because it is such a pain in the ass to reinstall Windows and your application base now that we'll put up with the crappy performance Windwos gives us after a couple of years.
98 was a breeze, specify the ini file with the Product Key and 30 minutes later, you're in. Load video card drivers, sound card, reboot.
Now, you're looking at a minimum 45 minute install with codes you have to key in, activation, then a 1 hour minimum service pack install. Annoying balloons as it is a fresh install and product keys to deal with for your application base as well as activation for some of them.
It used to be you could switch a hard drive running Windows 98, reload motherboard drivers, and you're running, now it is an abysmal reinstall process that makes Linux the easiest OS to install and setup.
Sounds logical to agree with you but I'll have to disagree.
My experience was that 98 was far more stable than 95, which would crash on a whim.
The only, and I mean only time that 98 would crash on me is after some DirectX session, and that was on a whim. If I left a 98 box to run a fax software to answer my phone, it would run forever and usually on crap hardware. If I played Unreal more than once, it would crash whilst doing something else - on expensive, good hardware.
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As much as you want to bitch about your opinion of William Shatner's acting, no one else could have embodied the character of Captain Kirk as he.
Jeffery Hunter, while probably a better actor, would have been as forgotten as the captain of Time Tunnel by now.
Face it, the entire cast of Gilligans Island will be known as those characters forever as much as Thomas F Wilson will be forever known as Biff Tannen. Those performances would be nothing without the contributions of those actors. How many Gingers were there?
Star Trek would be just another crappy 60's Sci Fi show without Shatners contribution.
Probably the best actor to reinvent himself each decade would be Lee Majors.
He has been iconic in his roles in Big Valley of the 60s, the Six Million Dollar Man of the 70s, and the Fall Guy in the 80s and was married to THE hottie of the 70s.
The only one who comes close (and forgive me) would be David Hasselhoff of Knight Rider and Baywatch fame. (and I can personally attest that Hoff is a wuss in real life)
Most of the Trek episodes weren't that good anyway so any 'bad acting' fixing isn't going to matter. I'd like to see how they fix the western episode and if they remove the wires from those creatures in the halloween episode.
If you were an actor, how would you handle the following episodes:
-evil twin episode
-evil twin in another universe episode
-old age episode
-episode with a guy in love with a bunch of lights
-a greek god episode
-episode where a main character loses his brain
-halloween episode
-western episode
-Nazi episode
-Chicago gangster episode
-Indian episode
-Abraham Lincoln episode
-Hippie episode
-episode where they're all in an empty room with some chick that heals
-the episode with the midget in some greek setting with the first interracial kiss
Yeah, god bless William Shatner and the stuff he had to go through.
What's even better than a browser based adblock is to block it on your router.
I've blocked all those floating ads and intellitxt scripts.
I can name plenty of non-geeks that hate Microsoft.
Things they bring to my attention:
Windows ME
Viruses and spyware pre-2004
They are stuck using MS because of proprietary 3rd party software.
When is theivery justified when it is between 2 private citizens?
If someone has no respect for my property or space, they're a subhuman.
A rapist is the same as a thief with the added tag that it is sexual in nature.
A murderer is a thief that will take what cannot be replaced.
My above list is also known as a dreg of society and we have rules about their removal from society.
It is clear cut that people the likes of Charles Manson, Jeffery Dahmer, and your average car jacker have no place in decent society.
$30 an hour is selling yourself short.
Especially in an area with 50,000+ within 15 minutes.
After self employment and income taxes, he's making $15 an hour.
Do no less than $50 and that'll net you in an average of $52,000.
Hell, even piano teachers charge $1 a minute in my area and I'm not 50,000 people within 15 minutes.
If the $30 price point is your hook, offer that for the first 30 minutes.
What do you propose we do with people we don't want in society like thieves, rapists, and murderers?
You can't treat a subhuman like a human unless they want to be treated like a human, except that they don't act human.
Isn't the only option for DIY is OTA HD?
My question to manufacturers is why hasn't someone made a component in HD card?
That would cause quite a stir and be a boon for the DIYers. I think that is when I jump in on the MythTV bandwagon.
But it isn't a Sony product like UMD.
It is just as much a Hitachi spec as it is a Sony spec.
Sony just wanted a hand in forming a spec, not dictating what it should be.
The only thing that set Sony apart when the group was formed in 2002 was that Sony was not only a manufacturer but also a content provider.
Now Apple is in the same camp as Sony.
I understand the Sony hatred but to call Blu-Ray a Sony product just shows ignorance.
It's like believing that spending $39.95 on some late night infomercial will make you rich/healthy/attractive.
Sony will manufacture BD players, then that will be a Sony product, otherwise, it's not.
That UMD ship has sailed and is sinking with the Sony flag on it.
If I wanted to manufacture a player or media in the UMD format, I would have to pay Sony for a license.
Sony's part of Blu-Ray is only the spearhead, not the license holder. In other words, Sony got together with other media companies and said "Lets come up with a format to hold High Definition media" and nothing else.
I quote from http://www.blu-raydisc.info/
Although Sony may have a vested stake as an electonics manufacturer and a media outlet, they are appointed a license holder and are not THE license holder.
http://www.blu-raydisc.com/general_information/Se
Why the hell do you idiots equate Blu-Ray with Sony?
Sony == Rootkits, I get that.
Blu-Ray != Sony
HD-DVD == Toshiba all the way
Blu-Ray == Sony as much as Blu-Ray == Apple == Mitsubishi == Hitachi == LG == you name it.
Last I checked, Blu-Ray is everybody that is media important except Toshiba.
HD-DVD is a smidgen of media companies and electronic wanna bes (except for Toshiba) that happens to be market friendly sooner.
I 100% agree that one of them needs to die first nad if Blu-ray has lillies, then so be it.
I really don't care which one makes it.
As I see it, HD-DVD has a market friendly name that will convey to anyone to knows what it means. The amount of people that care about capacity on the disc amounts to the amount of people that bitch if a website isn't Safari or Opera friendly.
I really thought that DVD-R/DVD+R would matter but it doesn't anymore. This won't matter anymore in 5 years and I'll probably get a player after they hit below $200 as I did with standard DVD.
Thanks! You've made me feel better about my power company!
Hospitals actually have payment plans with interest far below what any credit card offers.
I've had 2 kids at $10,000 each - Insurance covered 80% so I was out of pocket $2,000 each which wasn't due until 5 months after the procedure and with a very liberal and affordable payment plan.
$2,000 isn't that much to plan for especially when
A) there is a pregnancy so there is 9 months to plan for raising $10,000 in the first place if needed
B) You have a 5 month window AFTER delivery to actually pay what is due
Obviously, a surgery will be more than a typical baby delivery but I'd look at hospital payment plans over any credit card payment terms.
Radio Shack doesn't carry that anymore.
Head over to the hardware store and try to find the following items:
-light bulb repair kit #3
-a case of canned vacuum (goes with above after the ones that come with the kit runs out)
-2 feet of fallopian tubing
When smoking is actually illegal and peanuts are banned everywhere.
After blind people drive, people with that ever so active 'toe tapping' when one leg is over the other knee will start to get citations for being offensive.
Shop elsewhere. Shopping at Target isn't the life and death of anyone much less making sure some 'miracle' drug website is 508 complaint.
I'm all for Target saying "We don't serve your kind here."
Now is a good time to sue MTV and all those other IE only sites with deep pockets.
-I know not all of MTV is IE only but MTV and MS are in bed together which = deep pockets.
As utilites nickel and dime us to death, I've noticed a recent trend.
Some utilites (and/or services), like cable for instance, want to be the monopoly and offer a cheaper rate for phone service than the local Bell - provided you have at least 2 of their services.
The local Bell will offer TV programming, provided from a cable competitor, cheaper than the competitor can offer it as long as you have 2 services from the Bell, i.e. phone and TV.
OK, fine, so that's the new game with these types of services, pick and choose, but find a bundle from one source.
Now look at utilities.
My natural gas bill was $35 last month. That is $20 for delivery service and $15 for therms used. That $20 delivery service is the same every month, summer or winter.
My electricity bill has a $25 'just because you're a customer' charge every single month, no matter how many kWhs I use.
I understand the need for the service but when the 'customer' charge is 1/3 of the bill, I take notice. I didn't notice when it was 10% and less of the bill.
I guess you're not aware of peanut allergies which is a very real situation around people I know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_allergy
To some extent, shellfish allergies, though not as common in numbers, is just as bad being near.
Wheat needs to be ingested but if a person had a wheat allergy, they most likely will have a nut allergy.
Yes there was.
There was K56flex by Rockwell and X2 by USR. V90 was the finalized standard for 56K.
IIRC, you had to dial a 56K modem bank that suported either.
Gambling is akin to entertainment. You pay a fee for entertainment, you might get some back but it isn't guaranteed.
Prostitution is a service that is outlawed in the US. No goods are transferred.
Guns are goods and there are international laws against goods.
...so he lets them break the law
So arrest the gamblers, not the person who is running a legal business.
That is the only way to get people involved enough to care about their legislation.
I would say cigarette smoking is much closer to alcohol prohibition.
It sure is getting there, and I hate it.
I'm not a smoker and I hate being around smoke, if you want to smoke, that's your business.
I don't see why a business that wants to cater to smokers isn't able to in some municipalities.
I can understand banning smoking in libraries, museums, airplanes, and buses but come on, bars and nightclubs?
If a smoker wants to smoke in a public park, let them. It's a public place meant for everyone. You can't please everyone.
People eat peanut butter sandwiches, they shouldn't have to cater to people with nut allergies if they want to have a picnic in a public place.
People exist with shellfish allergies as well; Are peanut, wheat, shellfish, and toe tapping going to be outlawed next?
The problem I have, or maybe I haven't figured it out yet, is that 95% of spam (that we get) comes from RIPE and APNIC addresses that are using for hire SMTP servers. The other 5% is from zombie machines on charter.net, rr.com, and other ISPs in the US.
How can I just block out IP addresses instead of domain names without using an external firewall?
Well, you let it go without reinstalling it for 3 years.
You can't tell me that your registry bloat, poor paging, and slow boots aren't slowing you down, you're just putting up with it.
That's because it is such a pain in the ass to reinstall Windows and your application base now that we'll put up with the crappy performance Windwos gives us after a couple of years.
98 was a breeze, specify the ini file with the Product Key and 30 minutes later, you're in.
Load video card drivers, sound card, reboot.
Now, you're looking at a minimum 45 minute install with codes you have to key in, activation, then a 1 hour minimum service pack install.
Annoying balloons as it is a fresh install and product keys to deal with for your application base as well as activation for some of them.
It used to be you could switch a hard drive running Windows 98, reload motherboard drivers, and you're running, now it is an abysmal reinstall process that makes Linux the easiest OS to install and setup.
9x just crashed on a whim
Sounds logical to agree with you but I'll have to disagree.
My experience was that 98 was far more stable than 95, which would crash on a whim.
The only, and I mean only time that 98 would crash on me is after some DirectX session, and that was on a whim.
If I left a 98 box to run a fax software to answer my phone, it would run forever and usually on crap hardware.
If I played Unreal more than once, it would crash whilst doing something else - on expensive, good hardware.