Wait... So you just watched three episodes from somewhere in the middle of the series? That's like picking up a book, opening it to the middle and reading. Seriously, do yourself a favour, watch the show in order until at least episode 8 (And The Sky Full Of Stars), or even better, episode 13 (Signs and Portents). By that stage, you'll either be interested, or you'll find that its not for you. With B5, you really can't get a taste of the series by just watching a few episodes at random, and if this is all you've done, then its completely understandable that you didn't enjoy it.
Off topic, but is it me or has slashdot officially died? I look over the comments and long gone are the days of 1000+ comments on stories, we're down too 100 now. Everyone is over at reddit & digg, both community driven. Come on guys stop jerking off - wheres slashdot labs et al? The original open source site should open up or just as bad as the rest.
Nuff said - my 0.02, AC
Yesterday (October 31, 2006, AEST), there were 31 articles posted, with a total of 7211 comments (mean number of comments per article was 232.6).
The same day, last year (October 31, 2006, AEST), there were only 20 articles posted, but still a total of 6749 comments (mean was 337.5). To be fair though, there was an article about ID, which got over 1500 comments. So let's take a look at the median... For 2006 it was 170, and for 2005 it was 247. Hm, perhaps there has been a decrease after all.
Let's look a little further back... how about Oct 31, 2005? 30 articles, 10138 comments, mean of 337.9, median of 320.
Ok, looks like there has been a decrease. I'd actually be interested in seeing a better analysis (with a better sample than my five minute job).
AUSTRALIANS travelling to the US can breathe easy. So can the 100,000 or so Australian expatriates living in America.
The US government today dismissed media reports it had banned Vegemite.
"There is no ban on Vegemite," US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) spokesman Mike Herndon said.
Media reports at the weekend claimed American border officials were confiscating Vegemite from Australians as they entered the US.
The FDA, charged with policing America's food supply, has not issued an "import alert" to border officials to halt the import of Vegemite.
Mr Herndon said the FDA was surprised by the media reports.
The controversy centres on folate, an ingredient in Vegemite.
Under US regulations, folate can be added only to breads and cereals.
"One of the Vitamin B components (in Vegemite) is folate," Mr Herndon said.
"In and of itself, it's not a violation. If they're adding folate to it, boosting it up, technically it would be a violation.
"But the FDA has not targeted it and I don't think we intend to target Vegemite simply because of that."
Joanna Scott, spokesperson for Vegemite's maker, Kraft, reportedly has said, "The Food and Drug Administration doesn't allow the import of Vegemite simply because the recipe does have the addition of folic acid".
But Mr Herndon said, "Nobody at the FDA has told them (Kraft) there is a ban".
To eradicate any grey areas or potential regulation breaches, Mr Herndon said, Kraft could petition the FDA, something other food manufacturers have done.
While many Aussies living in the US rely on visiting Australian relatives and friends to bring them a jar or two of Vegemite from Australia, the product is available in some US supermarkets.
The price slapped on Vegemite, however, is tough to swallow.
A tiny, four ounce jar of Vegemite sells for around $US4.80 ($6.33) in US supermarkets.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to agree with the author - CTR was a far superior game to Mario Kart 64. I mean, I loved Mario Kart as much as the next guy, but CTR really perfected the kart-racing genre.
Unfortunately the same can't be said for its sequels:/
Not to say that the man isn't creative or imaginative, but he certainly didn't invent King Kong...or the brachiosaurus or the T-Rex or the Velociraptor or or or....
Actually, there is no T-Rex in the film. From Wikipedia:
"Apart from Kong, Skull Island is also inhabited by dinosaurs and other large fauna. However, though they may look similar, they are not the familiar species. Inspired by the works of Dougal Dixon, the designers have imagined what 65 million years of evolution would have done to the dinosaurs. Naturally, the creatures are presented as more scientifically accurate than those portrayed in the 1933 version."
Not to mention the enormous spiders and insects on the island.
As much as we'd all love to see The Universe Is Toast, it isn't possible at this stage - iD still owns the rights to Keen, and doesn't seem to want to give them up, regardless of the fact that they aren't using them, and the last Keen game they tried to release was a flop (Commander Keen for Gameboy Color).
have you tried opera, i use firefox since my slowest computer runst at 1.3 ghz, but when i am setting up fresh installs on older hardware i usually point people towards opera. for quick safe browsing with tabs.
Yes, I have tried Opera - it's not customizable enough for me though. Other than that, it's not a bad browser. I've actually never had any speed problems with Firefox, even on my older computers (233 MHz). In fact, the only problems I've ever had are the Alt+Enter bug the great-great-grandparent linked to, and the fact that the bookmarks toolbar can't be right-aligned.
What are you using, Windows ME? Good god man, anything is better than ME/98se/98/95.
I agree with the grandparent. Believe it or not, not everyone has the luxury of being able to upgrade their hardware all the time. I'm posting this from my old 333 MHz box. It does everything I need it to, except let me open a url in a new tab, and I don't particularly want to spend a few thousand dollars upgrading my computer just so that I can run a version of Windows which this bug doesn't affect. This bug really does need to be addressed.
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... it's a beta version.
Indeed, Crusade was good.
Wait... So you just watched three episodes from somewhere in the middle of the series? That's like picking up a book, opening it to the middle and reading. Seriously, do yourself a favour, watch the show in order until at least episode 8 (And The Sky Full Of Stars), or even better, episode 13 (Signs and Portents). By that stage, you'll either be interested, or you'll find that its not for you. With B5, you really can't get a taste of the series by just watching a few episodes at random, and if this is all you've done, then its completely understandable that you didn't enjoy it.
Grey 17 really isn't that bad. Sure, it had a crappy looking monster, but it had a good B-story.
Ok, I really screwed it up. The first one is 2006, the second is 2005, the third is 2003.
Whoops.
Yesterday (October 31, 2006, AEST), there were 31 articles posted, with a total of 7211 comments (mean number of comments per article was 232.6).
The same day, last year (October 31, 2006, AEST), there were only 20 articles posted, but still a total of 6749 comments (mean was 337.5). To be fair though, there was an article about ID, which got over 1500 comments. So let's take a look at the median... For 2006 it was 170, and for 2005 it was 247. Hm, perhaps there has been a decrease after all.
Let's look a little further back... how about Oct 31, 2005? 30 articles, 10138 comments, mean of 337.9, median of 320.
Ok, looks like there has been a decrease. I'd actually be interested in seeing a better analysis (with a better sample than my five minute job).
... give anyone an incentive to gouge out my eyeballs?
How did they manage to cram so many buzzwords into one summary?
I agree, it's annoying!
"We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die."
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to agree with the author - CTR was a far superior game to Mario Kart 64. I mean, I loved Mario Kart as much as the next guy, but CTR really perfected the kart-racing genre.
:/
Unfortunately the same can't be said for its sequels
Not to say that the man isn't creative or imaginative, but he certainly didn't invent King Kong...or the brachiosaurus or the T-Rex or the Velociraptor or or or....
Actually, there is no T-Rex in the film. From Wikipedia:
"Apart from Kong, Skull Island is also inhabited by dinosaurs and other large fauna. However, though they may look similar, they are not the familiar species. Inspired by the works of Dougal Dixon, the designers have imagined what 65 million years of evolution would have done to the dinosaurs. Naturally, the creatures are presented as more scientifically accurate than those portrayed in the 1933 version."
Not to mention the enormous spiders and insects on the island.
What is the constriction preventing the use of commercial software?
That would be money.
MSFT's unreleased os has nearly the same market share as linux?
By that logic, Windows 98 has nearly the same market share as Windows 2000.
Windows 2000 16.5%
Windows 98 6.6%
Here's a spoiler: You will die alone.
Everybody dies alone.
I'm guessing from Adrien's name that he's related to Allah (aka John Carmack). Is all this drama a result of a feud between them?
The two are actually not related at all.
Then again Commander Keen *does* own.
There, I fixed it for you.
As much as we'd all love to see The Universe Is Toast, it isn't possible at this stage - iD still owns the rights to Keen, and doesn't seem to want to give them up, regardless of the fact that they aren't using them, and the last Keen game they tried to release was a flop (Commander Keen for Gameboy Color).
Probably not... but there's a lot of information over at Wikipedia which is probably ok to copy.
have you tried opera, i use firefox since my slowest computer runst at 1.3 ghz, but when i am setting up fresh installs on older hardware i usually point people towards opera. for quick safe browsing with tabs.
Yes, I have tried Opera - it's not customizable enough for me though. Other than that, it's not a bad browser. I've actually never had any speed problems with Firefox, even on my older computers (233 MHz). In fact, the only problems I've ever had are the Alt+Enter bug the great-great-grandparent linked to, and the fact that the bookmarks toolbar can't be right-aligned.
What are you using, Windows ME? Good god man, anything is better than ME/98se/98/95.
I agree with the grandparent. Believe it or not, not everyone has the luxury of being able to upgrade their hardware all the time. I'm posting this from my old 333 MHz box. It does everything I need it to, except let me open a url in a new tab, and I don't particularly want to spend a few thousand dollars upgrading my computer just so that I can run a version of Windows which this bug doesn't affect. This bug really does need to be addressed.