It isn't the actors themselves that's the problem, Patricia Arquette is fantastic when given good, dark material to work with...True Romance, Lost Highway, Bringing out the Dead. But this is just awful, every episode so far is just a re-hash of "we gotta stay determined, the bad guys are bad, trust your team" and it all works out by the end of the hour. Little cookie-cutter sized bits of drama, that's just not her. The rest of the crew...the upright white male #2 in command and the nerdy back team...are just forgettable.

Maybe that's just the CSI/NCIS formula (I like the New Orleans one though, Bakula and his 2 sidekicks work great together), but it's sputtering here.

I came across this black beauty in an adjunct professor's office years ago. None of the current occupants liked it, preferring whatever plastic Dell keyboard came packed with the PCs at the time, so I gladly scooped it up. Been using it ever since.

But why can't there simply be room for two belief sets? Faith vs. science? Like in Anne Rice's vampire series, for many many centuries the vampires had varying beliefs on they whys and the hows of their vampiric existence. It was only later on that it was discovered that a spirit had taken over the body of a dying woman and somehow animated the cells into eternal life, but one can still view the original event as one of divinity.

DeepFreeze? What is this, 2002? We dumped Faronics years ago, there's nothing it did that could not be handled by group policy and, more importantly, not giving everyone admin rights to their boxes.

It's something Fox News says because it makes the god-lovin, gun-huggin corn farmers in flyover country ears pop up in sage agreement.

every Fox News anchor.

Lucky you. We had em in the room, 1 per every 4 computers. At least printing problems were rather easier to address; most everything was either "you fed the paper in wrong" or "you didn't flip the ABCD switch to you computer's parallel port".

I'd love to time-warp away from ipad, etc...support.

Add to that a computer lab full of tractor-feed printers, it's a wonder that anyone from those days can hear a thing anymore.

They won't be able to install a thing with a non-admin account.

Or even worse, the early adopters who hit right at the "netbook" craze.

We went with Chromebooks last year and more this year, but in 2010 ~100 netbooks were purchased. Win 7 Pro on an Atom processor with 2G memory wasn't a pretty sight.

> ...'pull-down conversation mirror' that lets drivers check on kids without turning around."

Back in the 70's, those mysterious "eyes in the back of the head" that'd always catch you when you were about to yank your sister's pigtails.

In 50 years, I highly doubt you'd wish to come down from whatever advanced technology we will have to play games on x86 architecture, any more than I have a desire to dust off my Atari VCS and play pong.

Google for "Molten WoW", they rake in so much via donors that they can pay actual coders to work on the emu software. The gameplay isn't nearly as robust and they are a full expansion behind, but last I looked there were still ~20,000 people across a half-dozen servers.

And here I thought it was just the step between mithril and fel iron.

Yes, Colbert is much, much more than the faux-O'Reilly persona he's affected in recent years. All the work he did on the Daily Show...I recall the "Even Steven" segment he did with Steve Carell was rather brilliant.

I feel a bit bad for Craig Ferguson. He's a great comic but his shtick is a bit out there at times, and much less scripted and structured than I think CBS wanted for the prime night-time slot