Talk to any rabid Star Trek fan, and they'll probably start yapping about how the cellphone will eventually morph into the infamous tricorder,... Then again, even in the Star Trek universe, the equivalent of the modern day cellphone, the Star Trek Communicator, is a separate device worn on the uniform and not in the tricorder.
Most users don't take the time to explore their browser. Firefox out of the box is nothing special. Firefox with a few extensions and some tweaks to its settings (Especially enabling http pipelining) is hot stuff.
Which is exactly why most users still use IE over Firefox. Most users are just that, users. They don't want to spend hours tweaking their computer out of the box. They want to open up their PC, turn it on, and check email, write papers, do what they have to do without worrying about any of the functions, "under the hood,..." in the same way that when you drive a car, most drivers just want to turn the key and drive, not worrying about stuff under the hood. Unfortunately, what they (and Microsoft) fail to realize is that, computers are a lot more like cars; left with maintenance unattended, they will eventually become useless.
I guess he thought "free porn pipeline" wouldn't be as catchy.
Actually, "free porn pipeline," was President Bill's idea,... Al talked him out of it and they went with plan B when all the Lewinsky cr*p hit the fan!
Falcon I. Isn't that the ship that did the kessel run in less than twelve parsecs? Oh wait, that was the Millennium Falcon! It must be getting close to another Star Wars movie premiere,...
Didn't some group of nerds just raise $3.14 million in an attempt to save a mediocre Star Trek series from going off the air? I can think of a better use for that money... heck, we're only about $1 million away from $4.2 million already!
The Secret Service did not say what kind of threat accurate overhead imagery poses. But Gartner analyst John Pescatore, a former Secret Service agent, says the image distortions could be a response to real, if unlikely, attack scenarios: like a homemade drone aircraft armed with explosives, remotely piloted by a terrorist using aerial photographs as a navigation aid. "There are actually good reasons, oddly enough," says Pescatore. "Some of them are very low probability things."
Aircraft flying into city and government buildings is a low probability?!?! Huh?!?! Wonder where this guy was in 2001?
A guy walked into a bar and started to dial on his hand like it was a phone and started to talk into it. The bartender comes up to him and says, "what are you doing?"
"This is a bad neighbor hood and if anyone sees you doing that their gonna beat you up."
The guy says "Oh no, my hand has a phone surgically implanted into it."
The bartender just shakes his head and says. "whatever,"
The guy goes to the bathroom and is in there a long time and the bartender gets worried and goes in and checks up on him, he gets in there sees the guy with his pants down and a toilet paper roll shoved up his butt, the bartender thinking something bad had happened so he goes "Are you okay? What happen? Were you raped? what happened?"
And the guy goes, "Oh no, I'm just receiving a fax."
Considering the completely astronomical odds of Star Trek Enterprise being brought back from cancellation, maybe the Save Enterprise guys should donate their funds to saving Voyager 1/2 instead. After all, $4.2 million for data collection and analysis isn't too bad, compared to the $30 million cost of an entire season of Enterprise.
Then, as a side benefit, all this data could also be sent to Berman and Braga to tell them how the universe really functions!!
So they're basically asking folks to just throw their money at Paramount to continue producing a television series with mediocre ratings. So that Paramount can then ultimately cancel it (let's imagine it actually makes it to seven seasons), and then start selling DVD sets of the show?!?!
Last time I checked, amazon.com was selling the first season of Deep Space 9 for $103.99!! Compare that to the price for the first season of Stargate SG-1 at $52.47,... Now, we all know the, "true cost" of producing DVDs these days, and given that, even the Stargate guys are making a buttload of profit off of their DVD sets... think of the mad money that Paramount is raking in from TNG, DS9, and VOY (oh yeah, not to forget about thos original series back in the 60s),...
Granted, I like Enterprise and all, especially now that the show is actually getting good this season (and not to forget about T'Pol's boobies;-). But donating cash to a show/producer to produce a series that they're ultimately going to profit on like crazy in the long run is just insane. If Enterprise is to be saved, the fans need to make the clear case to Paramount that they want it to continue, without simply "donating" money to the studio. They need to convince the execs that the fan base is out there and they will be able to make money from advertising on the show. But I sure as hell ain't gonna donate money to a company that's practically ripping its fans off at the DVD store after the show!
My class started with 70 and there were 6 of us that graduated on time. It's a good program.
Your class started with 70 and only 8.57% of you managed to graduate on time?! And you call that a good program?! Wonder when/if the other 91.43% of your class graduated?!
From the statistics you've provided, it sounds like DeVry doesn't really match up too well against the rest of the "normal" universities in the country,...
Gates went on to say, "Much like our Internet Explorer and Outlook Express products, we feel that it is best if we charge for these tools what they are worth."
Finally, we get the true value of Internet Exploder, right from the horse's mouth himself! ZERO!
CNN.com now has this article regarding the save enterprise campaign. They seem to be focusing on the recent ad in the LA Times, and they mention a rally on February 25 in the Paramount lot in Hollywood.
If you look at all the other shows (if one would even go so far as to call the crap that they're airing a, "TV show"?) that make up UPN's existing lineup, it doesn't look like Paramount and UPN have a serious interest in Sci-Fi at all. Enterprise is really the only sci-fi show on UPN, and the other shows are geared to an entirely different demographic (which apparently doesn't give a rip about "quality" programming anyways)! UPN apparently wants to can Enterprise so they can put some crap teeny bopper show in its place,...
They would actually be smarter to sell it off to Sci-Fi, and let the SFC develop it, the same way that they've developed Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Galactica. But alas, Paramount/Viacom doesn't want to sell off the whole star trek thing yet because they still want to milk the cash off of the DVD sales and star trek paraphernalia that they can sell in stores and at conventions and stuff. Maybe they could be talked into selling the shows in syndication to SFC, but then SFC would also have to have an interest in airing it and buying the syndication rights. Although methinks that SFC is also smart enough to not even want to touch anything produced by Berman & Braga!
Searching for, "rich overpaid dorks in washington, dc" also leads you to the Recording Industry Association of America. I guess we know what google really thinks of the RIAA,...;-)
max of only 10 hits with no secondary pages?
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I have to say that Google Maps is awesome! The user interface is clean and fast (using Mozilla Firefox here), the information is, for the most part, accurate. I also like the easy searchable language options as well. Google is definitely on to something here.
But it is definitely still in beta.
One thing that I've noticed is that each search only results in a max of 10 hits, and there are no links for additional pages or hits beyond 10. I noticed this doing a quick search for, "Pizza, Louisville, KY." Being the corporate headquarters of both Pizza Hut (Yum! Brands) and Papa John's, I KNOW there are more than 10 pizza places in the city.
Granted, I can see why they may not want to put too many hits on one page, but I would expect at least a link to secondary pages. Let's hope that this is in the works, soon.
The reasons for cancelling the Hubble program is very similar, oddly enough, to the reasons for cancelling Star Trek Enterprise after this season. Both instilled much excitement and enthusiasm. Both had a decent run during their time period. But the time is over. Enterprise dried up due to poor writing and a lack of new ideas, leading no one to really watch the show. With the Hubble, we've seen more than we've expected with it, and it was nearing the end of its lifetime anyways. So it's time to move on to new and better things.
I think NASA is finally realizing that if they really want to go places (like, how about, off this rock, for starters?), they can't be tinkering with a bunch of cheesy programs in low earth orbit (read: space shuttle, ISS, hubble, etc), which basically amounts to not even leaving your own backyard! NASA is now desiring to get back to the glory days, when at their height, they were launching rockets to the moon in the 60s. Setting rather "lofty" (but not too lofty) goals like that allow you to set smaller goals in between to help you achieve your big goal. But it gives you a definite project and direction that everyone is focusing towards, which makes people happy and brings in more funding, and lets you accomplish the smaller, but arguably more important, goals along the way. It's these smaller goals that we're actually going to see back here on earth: things like Tang (tm), new metals/products/machinery for industry, aeronautics, air travel, faster computers, better telemetry and data systems for relaying vital signs in hospitals,... the list goes on.
You're not going to develop this stuff as rapidly as you would by mucking around in LEO,...
Plus, methinks that the moon would be a much better base to build a permanent space telescope on.
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In other words: All Your Browser Are Belong To Us.
Talk to any rabid Star Trek fan, and they'll probably start yapping about how the cellphone will eventually morph into the infamous tricorder ,... Then again, even in the Star Trek universe, the equivalent of the modern day cellphone, the Star Trek Communicator , is a separate device worn on the uniform and not in the tricorder.
And this quote is a surprise to who? That's a big shocking news story of the day; Bill Gates prefers IE over Firefox! Like duh!
Most users don't take the time to explore their browser. Firefox out of the box is nothing special. Firefox with a few extensions and some tweaks to its settings (Especially enabling http pipelining) is hot stuff.
Which is exactly why most users still use IE over Firefox. Most users are just that, users . They don't want to spend hours tweaking their computer out of the box. They want to open up their PC, turn it on, and check email, write papers, do what they have to do without worrying about any of the functions, "under the hood,..." in the same way that when you drive a car, most drivers just want to turn the key and drive, not worrying about stuff under the hood. Unfortunately, what they (and Microsoft) fail to realize is that, computers are a lot more like cars; left with maintenance unattended, they will eventually become useless.
Actually, "free porn pipeline," was President Bill's idea,... Al talked him out of it and they went with plan B when all the Lewinsky cr*p hit the fan!
Falcon I. Isn't that the ship that did the kessel run in less than twelve parsecs? Oh wait, that was the Millennium Falcon! It must be getting close to another Star Wars movie premiere,...
Or actually, I was thinking something more along the lines of, "All your DNA are belong to us."
Didn't some group of nerds just raise $3.14 million in an attempt to save a mediocre Star Trek series from going off the air? I can think of a better use for that money ... heck, we're only about $1 million away from $4.2 million already!
Screw Enterprise!
The Secret Service did not say what kind of threat accurate overhead imagery poses. But Gartner analyst John Pescatore, a former Secret Service agent, says the image distortions could be a response to real, if unlikely, attack scenarios: like a homemade drone aircraft armed with explosives, remotely piloted by a terrorist using aerial photographs as a navigation aid. "There are actually good reasons, oddly enough," says Pescatore. "Some of them are very low probability things." Aircraft flying into city and government buildings is a low probability?!?! Huh?!?! Wonder where this guy was in 2001?
. . . On the shores of Lake Washington. Look for the three-pronged dock right in the middle.
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"This is a bad neighbor hood and if anyone sees you doing that their gonna beat you up."
The guy says "Oh no, my hand has a phone surgically implanted into it."
The bartender just shakes his head and says. "whatever,"
The guy goes to the bathroom and is in there a long time and the bartender gets worried and goes in and checks up on him, he gets in there sees the guy with his pants down and a toilet paper roll shoved up his butt, the bartender thinking something bad had happened so he goes "Are you okay? What happen? Were you raped? what happened?"
And the guy goes, "Oh no, I'm just receiving a fax."
Then, as a side benefit, all this data could also be sent to Berman and Braga to tell them how the universe really functions!!
Last time I checked, amazon.com was selling the
first season of Deep Space 9 for $103.99!! Compare that to the price for the
first season of Stargate SG-1 at $52.47,... Now, we all know the, "true cost" of producing DVDs these days, and given that, even the Stargate guys are making a buttload of profit off of their DVD sets
Granted, I like Enterprise and all, especially now that the show is actually getting good this season (and not to forget about T'Pol's boobies
Your class started with 70 and only 8.57% of you managed to graduate on time?! And you call that a good program?! Wonder when/if the other 91.43% of your class graduated?!
From the statistics you've provided, it sounds like DeVry doesn't really match up too well against the rest of the "normal" universities in the country,...
Simple. If there's a cheaper and more efficient way of doing things, it's definitely not being done by the U.S. Government.
Finally, we get the true value of Internet Exploder, right from the horse's mouth himself! ZERO!
Long live Firefox!
CNN.com now has this article regarding the save enterprise campaign. They seem to be focusing on the recent ad in the LA Times, and they mention a rally on February 25 in the Paramount lot in Hollywood.
They would actually be smarter to sell it off to Sci-Fi, and let the SFC develop it, the same way that they've developed Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Galactica. But alas, Paramount/Viacom doesn't want to sell off the whole star trek thing yet because they still want to milk the cash off of the DVD sales and star trek paraphernalia that they can sell in stores and at conventions and stuff. Maybe they could be talked into selling the shows in syndication to SFC, but then SFC would also have to have an interest in airing it and buying the syndication rights. Although methinks that SFC is also smart enough to not even want to touch anything produced by Berman & Braga!
But it is definitely still in beta.
One thing that I've noticed is that each search only results in a max of 10 hits, and there are no links for additional pages or hits beyond 10. I noticed this doing a quick search for, "Pizza, Louisville, KY." Being the corporate headquarters of both Pizza Hut (Yum! Brands) and Papa John's, I KNOW there are more than 10 pizza places in the city.
Granted, I can see why they may not want to put too many hits on one page, but I would expect at least a link to secondary pages. Let's hope that this is in the works, soon.
On the bright side, they do have a link to the best local brewpub in America.
After all, "It's just a TV show!"
The way some of these people on saveenterprise.com are talking, you'd think it was the second coming of Christ!
As Dr. Bones McCoy has already said (over and over in his grave):
"It's Dead, Jim!"
Let's just let Star Trek die and rest in peace,... And then bury Berman and Braga alive with all the damn tapes of the freakin' Nazis in Space! :-)
Lt. Redshirt: Aye, Keptin!
Captain Beavis: (to Troi) You! I order you to undress and show me your,... uhhuhhuhhuh,... thingies! Hehhehheh!
Lt. Cmdr. Butthead: But Captain, that violates inter-galactic laws, or something,... huhhuhhuh!
Captain Beavis: Number One! I order you to go take a number two! Hehhehheh!
This is cool! huhhuhhuh!
I think NASA is finally realizing that if they really want to go places (like, how about, off this rock, for starters?), they can't be tinkering with a bunch of cheesy programs in low earth orbit (read: space shuttle, ISS, hubble, etc), which basically amounts to not even leaving your own backyard! NASA is now desiring to get back to the glory days, when at their height, they were launching rockets to the moon in the 60s. Setting rather "lofty" (but not too lofty) goals like that allow you to set smaller goals in between to help you achieve your big goal. But it gives you a definite project and direction that everyone is focusing towards, which makes people happy and brings in more funding, and lets you accomplish the smaller, but arguably more important, goals along the way. It's these smaller goals that we're actually going to see back here on earth: things like Tang (tm), new metals/products/machinery for industry, aeronautics, air travel, faster computers, better telemetry and data systems for relaying vital signs in hospitals,... the list goes on.
You're not going to develop this stuff as rapidly as you would by mucking around in LEO,...
Plus, methinks that the moon would be a much better base to build a permanent space telescope on.