Favourite TV series
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Stereodude
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I guess your quest for speed extends into the bedroom. You probably have some great ideas for RAID-0 there too. :rofl:Nope, just slows down the whole operation
ddrueding
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Haven't we already discussed that RAID level here?
Nope, just slows down the whole operation
No way! That's part of the fun. Slow and steady wins the race. ;-)
Mercutio
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I'm so smooth I'm like a Promise RAID5 of Quantum Bigfoots.
udaman
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Umm, apparently Handy has never seen the 'older' versions of these...the 'bigger they are, the harder they fall'... or should I say the farther they sag?
On Lee Hyori those things look great, posted a few images here and T(im)wit(ter) objected vociferously, saying he'd get in trouble at work for a hostile workplace environment. Just a peak of the back of the thong for her stage performance on one of her songs where she was wearing tight jeans, just the slightest of cleavage (and she doesn't even have big breasts). But apparently Handy doesn't know that those huge sized versions need heavy-duty industrial strength foundational support...I suppose if you find that sexy...to each his own then? Those lacy, demicup semi-see-through bras provide little in the way of support, that's not their purpose
http://calorielab.com/news/2007/09/14/researchers-look-into-cause-of-man-boobs/
^well this is another motivator to lose some excess weight now, not even looking into the future for breast cancer!
Eeew! I'm not looking at any transvesexuals.
I don't care so much anymore, but I did more so in the 70s, etc.
Yeah, that's the final straw for me so I am going to join the ignore bandwagon for him.
Did Promise have RAID 5 then back?
I'm waiting for Greg to go on a rant about the 4x10GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 5120 drives on a FastTrak66.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I'm teaching one right now. She's still transitioning. She has a job as a stripper at the biggest gay/drag club in Indiana.
She's basically passing and probably more attractive than 85% of the women in this godawful state.
Chewy509
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I'm waiting for Greg to go on a rant about the 4x10GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 5120 drives on a FastTrak66.
Anyone old enough (and lucky enough) to use an Adaptec T100 SCSI RAID controller with 10MB SCSI 1 drives? Mmmm... 1MB/s on the ISA bus (if you were lucky).
Mercutio
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Her.
Microsoft certiftication stuff.
And Indiana is pretty damned bad, especially once thw women hit 22 or so and have pumped out two three kids apiece.
udaman
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I don't understand Merc, have you never explored...seriously, moving to another city/state then? You say there's no decent pizza, and now there's supposedly no decent women...why the hell do you torture yourself and stay?
LM comment reminds me, I should have, maybe I haven't been looking enough, but I think the glaring billboard for need of cellulite surgery, the him/her of velour hot pants, 6in platform hooker shoes, and Vegas 2in long eyelashes and makeup....man that cellulite is fuggly...billowing thighs, billowing biceps! Been awhile since I've seen her/him? at the intersection of the closed of streets for the Sunday Hollywood Farmer's market. The one that tries to solicit donations...saying "can you spare a dollar, to help the transexuals?"
Damn, if I only had a decent digicam I could have taken a pix and posted up here, w00t!
I'd be willing to bet I could find some pretty women in Indy...and take their picture, if I took a week long vacation to that city. Sure, most of them already have b/f, SO's, or husbands...but Merc says they don't even exist in that state...which I find hard to believe. Now if he said, there are no smokin hot Korean-American babes in this state that are single, I might be inclined to believe him.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I remember being thrilled to have a 1.768GB Micropolis SCSI-2 drive on an EISA Adaptec card, back when the largest obtainable IDE drives were 320MB models.
That same machine had a dual 486Dx/33 SMP setup, 16MB RAM (in 30-pin SIMMs!) and a 4MB ET4000 video card.
It was the sweetest computer EVAR in 1994.
Amazingly, everything returns to hard drives. And this is the TV thread.
I visited the local electronics store and was surprised at the number of TV series for sale on DVD. There were even old ones from decades ago. Prices were rather high. Since when did TV shows on DVD become a big thing?
I visited the local electronics store and was surprised at the number of TV series for sale on DVD. There were even old ones from decades ago. Prices were rather high. Since when did TV shows on DVD become a big thing?
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Since DVDs became widely available.
For $20 - $100, you can buy ten or fifteen times the amount of video entertainment as is available for a typical $15 movie.
For $200, I can indulge my science fiction fandom with complete series runs of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or BSG (sorry, no opinion on Stargate) and have an experience more entertaining and important to me personally than any movie I've ever seen.
In some cases I'd say it's money well spent.
Chewy509
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I tend to agree... My wife has watched the complete MASH series on DVD at least 9 to 10 times now. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M*A*S*H_(TV_series) )
I also tend to purchase TV Series, more than set movies as well. The TV Series being more character developed also set better as time goes on.
udaman
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Amazingly, everything returns to hard drives. And this is the TV thread.
I visited the local electronics store and was surprised at the number of TV series for sale on DVD. There were even old ones from decades ago. Prices were rather high. Since when did TV shows on DVD become a big thing?
Since more than a decade ago, lol. Mainly the 'hit' shows started coming out, and fans waited in anticipation to by the DVD from the last season they had just watched. Shows that had music as part of them...like Dawson's Creek (which also spawned 2 music CD's from the show, IIRC).
If you don't mind waiting (and we already know Merc can't), most of these shows end up as rentals from Netflx, and many are now (legally) available streaming over the net thru Netflix (albeit, you're not going to get very high quality video).
I see only the last season of BSG is on both DVD & BR over on netflix.
If you don't want to own, then rental is much less expensive. For me, since I don't watch anything more than once or twice, buying makes no sense.
The Prisoner, The Advengers (all the way back to before I was too young to watch, 1962). heh, I see they have season 1 of Johnny Quest---cartoon adventure sci-fi, sort off, that's about as far back as I can remember watching TV in my very young yut
Benefit of living in one of the largest TV markets is that lesser stations would broadcast series reruns in syndication, years/decades later than would be seen in other markets.Take the TV MASH series, was on reruns here maybe up until 2000...channel switching, that series seemed so old, and almost unbearably tedious as you've grown older---wasn't at all like that in my yut, used to watch it with my parents every week; makes you remember how old you are, by how long ago you saw it when it was current. I also used to watch the top rated comedy series 'Soap' starring Billy Crystal when he was much younger, was funny back then, but gets really old 5years later. I *never* liked Carrol O'Conner and the series 'All in the Family'...was really lame humor to me. Never did care for anything Norman Lear did.
I'd rather have more tongue-n-cheeky sci-fi than Buffy...prefer the BVS spin-off Angel for that. Andromeda for space sci-fi tongue-n-cheeky entertainment.
Search function on netfilx blows though.
Floppy drives are not 'hard' drives LM, they are really saggy
, especially the really large ones, like the original 8in sizeFushigi
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I'd add the DVD release, let alone Bluray, typically offers far superior video and audio fidelity than the original OTA/cable/satellite broadcast. Try watching Star Trek: Next Gen on TV and then watch the same episode on DVD. It's like a handful of blur filters were suddenly removed. And pre-HD I've never had good 5.1 audio from cable/satellite. Shows on DVD from the ST:NG era and newer are sometimes offered in 5.1. Granted, sometimes it's a remix and they seem to rarely use the full sound stage (rear speakers seldom get a workout) but the audio is much cleaner.
It also offers a way to get a TV show that you wouldn't otherwise have access to (P2P aside). The Sopranos, for instance, was only available (non-edited) on HBO and only a small fraction of households have that channel. We don't have Showtime but my wife does get the Dexter DVD sets. I'm waffling on True Blood myself. I never get tired of looking at them. :cheese:
It also offers a way to get a TV show that you wouldn't otherwise have access to (P2P aside). The Sopranos, for instance, was only available (non-edited) on HBO and only a small fraction of households have that channel. We don't have Showtime but my wife does get the Dexter DVD sets. I'm waffling on True Blood myself. I never get tired of looking at them. :cheese:
Will Rickards
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I'm of the opposite opinion on TV series on DVD. I don't buy them and think they are way overpriced. I think they are a good candidate for netflix items but not for actual purchase. I might feel differently if I didn't watch broadcast TV.
Fushigi
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When a TV season costs something like $60+, yes, it is overpriced. But when you can get them cheap it's not bad. We got season 2 of Chuck on BD for $33, for instance.
ddrueding
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Watched a bit of True Blood last night, and my wife nailed it. "Real porn has better acting, character development, and better action".
Mercutio
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As a rule I like the longer format of television better than movies. You can have more complex plots and character development.
There are some television shows where you just aren't going to get the full impact without multiple viewings and watching the episodes back to back. That type of viewing kind of becomes a project, and you kind of need to have your discs or files handy in order to do that.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
For what it's worth the "Not the..." and "This Ain't..." series that are coming from Hustler video really do manage to be damned funny and reminiscent of the TV shows they're based on. Some of them are closer than others, but they do manage to succeed as comedies even if the actual porn parts aren't always my cup of tea.
"Not Married With Children"
"Not the Bradys XXX"
"This Ain't Three's Company"
"This Ain't Star Trek"
"Everyone Loves Lucy" (in black and white, even)
et al.
Porn got away from that kind of thing for about 10 years but I'm glad they're back.
Mercutio
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Today at Chicago Comic Con, I had the opportunity to meet and briefly speak to Edward James "Admiral Adama" Olmos and Michael "Colonel Tigh" Hogan.
They were contractually not allowed to pose for photos outside of an expensive meet and greet session but they were both amazingly personable and in fact were joking around with each other and everyone who walked up to them. I shook their hands. What I really wanted to do was salute.
They were contractually not allowed to pose for photos outside of an expensive meet and greet session but they were both amazingly personable and in fact were joking around with each other and everyone who walked up to them. I shook their hands. What I really wanted to do was salute.
Fushigi
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It's been OK but I agree not great. Not the best SF around but far from the worst. And between the ending of the last season and Children of Earth, they're replacing all of the cast except Gwen & Captain Jack. And the Hub (TW's HQ) has been blown up so that set's gone. I've got one more ep of CoE to watch (I've been slow at catching up on DVRed stuff) but I suspect they'll be one new recruit by the end of it.
CoE has been the best Torchwood to date IMO. Still some moments that could be improved, but they do show a lot more of the political side of things. And the TW gang have been, instead of tolerated, hunted down for both what they know and what they do. Captain Jack goes through all kinds of hell. Getting shot is nothing new, and that happens here, but this time he's blown up from a bomb surgically implanted in his gut (also how the Hub is destroyed), encased in a huge block of concrete, and dieing from a bio-toxin released by the aliens. They also build on his background, showing how he wasn't always a good guy.
It's HBO, not porn. I've never seen a real porn film, but assume it is mostly bad based on the typical derision for the genre.
ddrueding
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I think you are drawing a line that doesn't exist. A lot of HBO is just soft-core kiddie-porn. Granted, there is a lot of bad porn out there, and because there is so little press/review of the material, you don't know what you are getting. I have seen many porn movies that have better plot, acting, and character development than True Blood. The fact that the sex scenes are better is just icing on the cake.
Mercutio
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... and yet I still watch...
Stereodude
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Somehow I don't think that's exactly what you meant to say. :bstd:
ddrueding
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Um....no....it wasn't. Thanks.
(I'm in Vegas, things are weird here.)
(I'm in Vegas, things are weird here.)