I'm on dryloop as well, and I've noticed that the modem will spontaneously cut out every so often. Cut out dead, that is.
Bell technicians have checked out the line numerous times and never been able to find anything wrong with it. Finally yesterday I asked them to ship a replacement as it seems to be the only thing left.
Prior to this I had excellent service (strange, I know).
If this behaviour, and the throttling, continue past my move date in a month's time, I'm off to TekSavvy, absolutely. I am using one of their leased services at the moment as a supplement and their customer service should shame any other company.
Just curious - what does she find interesting about the magazine? (I don't have a subscription to, or read any of the mags, nor do I look at gamer sites -- not skilled enough at any games whatsoever, you see)
I used to work in advertising and am curious as to what people think is useful.
Totally. They're the worst kinds of selfish cunts.
When I used to work for a solar module manufacturing firm in Italy, I would have to represent the firm with others at trade conferences and talk about the benefits -- and costs -- of the product. Most people were great.
However, with Greenpeace, I would get accosted outside of their booths simply because I would be wearing a suit. I was selling out the environmental movement. And I'd have to listen to this shit from a coddled undergraduate who'd never done a damn thing in his life aside from marching around in a piazza every once in a while.
Sooner or later I just want the damn thing to work. The point the reply poster makes concerning security as per De Raadt is a valid one, but the other reply about being able to recompile and tune doesn't apply as easily with Nvidia drivers (hell, I recompiled them just last night with a 2.6.22.1 kernel).
Now if I can get Nvidia and Hauppauge working together properly, I'll be a happy man...
Again, I think we'll have to agree to disagree. It could have been another song. Any other song, even. Just not a track from the '60s.
Honestly, in one ep last season, where they open with Baltar and Six singing a nursery rhyme... that was great. He changes the lyrics, apologises to Six. Says, 'Oh, I'm improvising...' -- and they're the lyrics we know. Fantastic. But that track? Awful. Hell, they should have used a nursery rhyme of any other language -- it would have been ten times better.
I see what you're trying to say about how we're interpreting it as English, but come on. They're singing in English.
It's funny. A couple of weeks before the finale I'm listening to Moore's podcast, and he says at one point, 'You know, I love the Sopranos, it never insults its audience.' Then the fucking finale airs, and Moore's podcast that week talks about how as it's on an American channel you gotta show Earth from the angle above North America, that the fans might not get it if they closed in on Europe, or if their effects team had shown Earth upside down.
I was just incensed when I heard that. Way to go Ron. You explicitly write stuff that basically jumps the shark and then you don't even have the pretense to cover up your disdain for the fans who thought your every word was gold.
OK, I'll take your point. I liked the astrology refs, even.
I'll concede it, even, but there is no way in hell I will accept that using All Along the Watchtower is a good move. It has the undeniable effect of destroying the illusion and making the show a laughing stock. With all the characters speaking English. Crap.
We'll have to agree to disagree on the song itself, I believe.
Leaving aside the other details, putting that song in -- for me, anyway, I don't presume to speak for anyone else -- totally ruined the show for me. I seriously wanted to cry watching the segment, because it should have been obvious how stupid it looked and sounded.
You're Ron Moore and David Eick. You spend a lot of time writing this huge essay about how science-fiction needs a kick in the balls and needs to be realistic.
You hire Oscar-calibre talent, you write fantastic scripts, you bring onboard the most incredible effects house in the industry.
You win tons of critical acclaim. You go from strength to strength over the course of three years (the miniseries, seasons 1 & 2, the 1st 5 episodes of season 3). You take scifi from a moribund, soon-to-be-buried genre to an allegory of relevance and power.
And then you get your cast to sing --- and hum, fer fuck's sake --- Dylan's All Along the Watchtower as a way of identifying your 'fifth column'. That is what I call pissing away credibility.
Totally agreed. My favourite show currently in production, but Jesus, has it ever sucked the big one this season.
Tigh: I'm telling you, there's Cylon sabotage aboard this ship!
Adama: You're telling me there's sabotage? With music?
No, Colonel Tigh.
That sound you're hearing? That's the sound of the writers pissing away three years of hard-won credibility in the space of seven minutes.
Generally, I don't agree with Coyne, but, he is pretty sensible for a Conservative, and I respect his opinions. Today's Post column brings up a good point:
It is a sign of the oddly disembodied nature of the debate that most of the points advanced could have been made by either side -- could and were. The sunsetted provisions, it was pointed out, one allowing police to arrest suspects without warrant and hold them for up to 72 hours, the other empowering judges to compel evidence at special investigative hearings, have never been used. Ha, says one side, so they're unnecessary! Ho, says the other, so they've hardly been abused, have they? In our knee-jerk anti-Tory attitude we often forget that the Liberals were the ones who proposed -- and passed -- this legislation in the first place.
Totally, man. I'm not a tech geek, but I'm paid to think and write about things (I'm a policy analyst) -- Coffee is a major component of my diet, and now that I've given up smoking, it's now even worse than it was before...
Honestly, if he hasn't the patience to bear with you about stuff like that, you might want to reconsider your friendship. I mean, does answering a question really kill people? That's just sheer laziness.
One of the first things I learned while working at a solar power firm was the concept or use of anti-corrosion techniques, which just sounded amazing to me at the time. Essentially you can protect metal from oxidising by putting a residual electrical charge over it -- which you can get directly from a working solar panel during the day. Night-time hours would be powered by a battery that you would charge with the excess electricity from the panel accumulated during the day.
I'm oversimplifying it massively here, but cathodic protection is a priority application for solar panels and equipment in remote areas, such as pipeline and radio-transmitter installations in the high Arctic.
This treatment sounds like a weird and cool transferral of the idea to teeth.
This is much like the movie industry bitching earlier in 2005 about their slump being due to the ungrateful schmucks who wouldn't see their shitty films.
You are 100% correct. Pointing out correct observations in a firm but polite way is not inflammatory, in fact I'd say it's pretty much perfect.
However, because Taco can't really argue against it (as it is sane, proposes some mild remedies that probably will work, and is quite clearly specified), he won't. Too much work, and he would still be wrong:)
Taco could have titled this article more accurately: 'Why Slashdot's Article Formatting Still Sucks and Will Continue to Suck,' with the subheader reading, 'And I still won't correct my typos, so fuck off.'
You'd mean, 'Those were the first through seventh series,' if you were counting by Doctor, right?
Or maybe, 'Those were the first twenty-six series,' going by length of time on the air?
Add to this the fact as other posters have mentioned here that some BBC seasons are incomplete, and you'd force a typical TV exec to have his or her brain explode, completely. And I've met a few, it would happen.
Really.
I don't get SciFi from where I am, but don't tell me you're going to avoid the new show on that basis, are you? Life is too short for that. I was lucky enough to catch Doctor Who both in Britain and in Canada as I moved back here (Toronto) during that time, I think it was 3 weeks apart last year. I never watched the old series, but I would like to now. I like it for the exact opposite superficial reasons that I like Galactica.
Where one goes without aliens, the other embraces them. One dark, highly morose, the other much lighter and funnier.
And there are deeper reasons for liking both, too. Both have talented actors and good writing, and both are more concerned with using remakes as vehicles for something more, cracking good yarns.
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As soon as my move date comes down, I'm doing the same. Dryloop customer for 2 years now.
Hello TekSavvy!
I'm on dryloop as well, and I've noticed that the modem will spontaneously cut out every so often. Cut out dead, that is.
Bell technicians have checked out the line numerous times and never been able to find anything wrong with it. Finally yesterday I asked them to ship a replacement as it seems to be the only thing left.
Prior to this I had excellent service (strange, I know).
If this behaviour, and the throttling, continue past my move date in a month's time, I'm off to TekSavvy, absolutely. I am using one of their leased services at the moment as a supplement and their customer service should shame any other company.
Got a corollary to that: Ever tried playing some old Linux ports a la the old Loki games?
....
Good luck. Outdated drivers everywhere
I read the 'Cloack' as the 'Cloaca' -- which would explain a lot of the shitty choices Lucas made. No pun intended...
Just curious - what does she find interesting about the magazine? (I don't have a subscription to, or read any of the mags, nor do I look at gamer sites -- not skilled enough at any games whatsoever, you see)
I used to work in advertising and am curious as to what people think is useful.
Totally. They're the worst kinds of selfish cunts.
When I used to work for a solar module manufacturing firm in Italy, I would have to represent the firm with others at trade conferences and talk about the benefits -- and costs -- of the product. Most people were great.
However, with Greenpeace, I would get accosted outside of their booths simply because I would be wearing a suit. I was selling out the environmental movement. And I'd have to listen to this shit from a coddled undergraduate who'd never done a damn thing in his life aside from marching around in a piazza every once in a while.
And that's not even talking about the other criticisms of Greenpeace...
Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!!
Agreed.
Sooner or later I just want the damn thing to work. The point the reply poster makes concerning security as per De Raadt is a valid one, but the other reply about being able to recompile and tune doesn't apply as easily with Nvidia drivers (hell, I recompiled them just last night with a 2.6.22.1 kernel).
Now if I can get Nvidia and Hauppauge working together properly, I'll be a happy man...
Like Nvidia?
Again, I think we'll have to agree to disagree. It could have been another song. Any other song, even. Just not a track from the '60s.
... that was great. He changes the lyrics, apologises to Six. Says, 'Oh, I'm improvising...' -- and they're the lyrics we know. Fantastic. But that track? Awful. Hell, they should have used a nursery rhyme of any other language -- it would have been ten times better.
Honestly, in one ep last season, where they open with Baltar and Six singing a nursery rhyme
I see what you're trying to say about how we're interpreting it as English, but come on. They're singing in English.
It's funny. A couple of weeks before the finale I'm listening to Moore's podcast, and he says at one point, 'You know, I love the Sopranos, it never insults its audience.' Then the fucking finale airs, and Moore's podcast that week talks about how as it's on an American channel you gotta show Earth from the angle above North America, that the fans might not get it if they closed in on Europe, or if their effects team had shown Earth upside down.
I was just incensed when I heard that. Way to go Ron. You explicitly write stuff that basically jumps the shark and then you don't even have the pretense to cover up your disdain for the fans who thought your every word was gold.
OK, I'll take your point. I liked the astrology refs, even.
I'll concede it, even, but there is no way in hell I will accept that using All Along the Watchtower is a good move. It has the undeniable effect of destroying the illusion and making the show a laughing stock. With all the characters speaking English. Crap.
We'll have to agree to disagree on the song itself, I believe.
No, that's exactly what I was talking about.
Leaving aside the other details, putting that song in -- for me, anyway, I don't presume to speak for anyone else -- totally ruined the show for me. I seriously wanted to cry watching the segment, because it should have been obvious how stupid it looked and sounded.
You're Ron Moore and David Eick. You spend a lot of time writing this huge essay about how science-fiction needs a kick in the balls and needs to be realistic.
You hire Oscar-calibre talent, you write fantastic scripts, you bring onboard the most incredible effects house in the industry.
You win tons of critical acclaim. You go from strength to strength over the course of three years (the miniseries, seasons 1 & 2, the 1st 5 episodes of season 3). You take scifi from a moribund, soon-to-be-buried genre to an allegory of relevance and power.
And then you get your cast to sing --- and hum, fer fuck's sake --- Dylan's All Along the Watchtower as a way of identifying your 'fifth column'. That is what I call pissing away credibility.
Tigh: I'm telling you, there's Cylon sabotage aboard this ship!
Adama: You're telling me there's sabotage? With music?
No, Colonel Tigh.
That sound you're hearing?
That's the sound of the writers pissing away three years of hard-won credibility in the space of seven minutes.
That was my point.
Holy fuck, this is how far he's fallen? He'll be going after the pr0n mavens next! Oh wait ...
I regularly would see prices of $14~16 Canadian here in downtown Toronto.
LOL! Awesome ;)
Totally, man. I'm not a tech geek, but I'm paid to think and write about things (I'm a policy analyst) -- Coffee is a major component of my diet, and now that I've given up smoking, it's now even worse than it was before...
Honestly, if he hasn't the patience to bear with you about stuff like that, you might want to reconsider your friendship. I mean, does answering a question really kill people? That's just sheer laziness.
One of the first things I learned while working at a solar power firm was the concept or use of anti-corrosion techniques, which just sounded amazing to me at the time. Essentially you can protect metal from oxidising by putting a residual electrical charge over it -- which you can get directly from a working solar panel during the day. Night-time hours would be powered by a battery that you would charge with the excess electricity from the panel accumulated during the day.
I'm oversimplifying it massively here, but cathodic protection is a priority application for solar panels and equipment in remote areas, such as pipeline and radio-transmitter installations in the high Arctic.
This treatment sounds like a weird and cool transferral of the idea to teeth.
This is much like the movie industry bitching earlier in 2005 about their slump being due to the ungrateful schmucks who wouldn't see their shitty films.
Poor fuckers. I feel so guilty.
You are 100% correct. Pointing out correct observations in a firm but polite way is not inflammatory, in fact I'd say it's pretty much perfect.
:)
However, because Taco can't really argue against it (as it is sane, proposes some mild remedies that probably will work, and is quite clearly specified), he won't. Too much work, and he would still be wrong
Taco could have titled this article more accurately: 'Why Slashdot's Article Formatting Still Sucks and Will Continue to Suck,' with the subheader reading, 'And I still won't correct my typos, so fuck off.'
You'd mean, 'Those were the first through seventh series,' if you were counting by Doctor, right?
Or maybe, 'Those were the first twenty-six series,' going by length of time on the air?
Add to this the fact as other posters have mentioned here that some BBC seasons are incomplete, and you'd force a typical TV exec to have his or her brain explode, completely. And I've met a few, it would happen.
Really.
I don't get SciFi from where I am, but don't tell me you're going to avoid the new show on that basis, are you? Life is too short for that. I was lucky enough to catch Doctor Who both in Britain and in Canada as I moved back here (Toronto) during that time, I think it was 3 weeks apart last year. I never watched the old series, but I would like to now. I like it for the exact opposite superficial reasons that I like Galactica.
Where one goes without aliens, the other embraces them. One dark, highly morose, the other much lighter and funnier.
And there are deeper reasons for liking both, too. Both have talented actors and good writing, and both are more concerned with using remakes as vehicles for something more, cracking good yarns.
'Cause you know, 'Music sounds better with you', right?