This change is actually saving me money. I just received my email from Netflix. I currently pay $41.99 a month for unlimited streaming plus 6 discs out. The plan split is (for me) $7.99 for streaming, $32.99 for 6 discs out, which comes to $40.98 a month.

I've no complaints. Email says the changes will go into effect on or after Sept 1st.

whatever ID is calling theirs these days, maybe lithtech, if they are still around

id has come out with the Tech 5 engine. See the game Rage for details

For Pop-Culture's sake, I think this would be more appropriate....

WOPR, Landru and SkyNet walk into bar.........

River is on The Cape
Kaylee was/is on SGA
Inara is on V

It's good to see you two getting along. This bickering has been going on for too long.

It would be damn-near impossible to earn 250 million ISK durig the trial period, even if you were mining 23/7. It takes time to make that kind of ISK. Even with planetary interaction, you need the ISK to purchase colonies to create P4 items. 3.7 milion for the command center, and roughly 1.5-2 million for the colony. then it takes time to produce the items.

I run three accounts and use PLEX to pay for two of them, so I'm actually only paying for one account with RL money. It's handy, but it took time to get to that point.... owning a decent corp, having the right skills to stay alive and keep producing....

With 3 accounts, I have 9 characters who process materials from planetary colonies. I can make roughly 20 million a day just by letting the colonies run, freeing up my characters to do something that's actually fun like PVP. Plus, by owning a corporation, I get to tax everyone in my corp, and make ISK off of their missions.

So it IS possible to never spend a dime playing EVE, but it takes time, skills, and patience.

Need a vascectomy? Fly the friendly skies instead! The more miles you log, the fewer kids you'll spawn!

What I've always found amusing is the language that is substituted to allow swearing on television.

Take "frak" for instance. It obviously means "fuck". When a character on BSG says "those motherfrakkers", he/she is obviously saying "motherfuckers". When Mal or Jayne say "gorram', they are obviously saying "goddamn". Everyone knows what they are really saying, and it's allowed. The FCC has no problem with people on television swearing, as long as the swear word is spelled and pronounced differently. Spike can say "sodding", and "bugger", and here in America we know he's saying "fucking", or "fuck it in the ass" (i think). But since it is British slang....it's allowed.

And where did "heck" and "gosh" come from? My children say them all the time, in public, and never get in trouble. I know that "what the heck?" is the same as saying "what the hell?", "oh my gosh" is "oh my god", "oh poop" is "oh shit". They mean the same thing, don't they? but if my 7-year-old daughter suddenly said "Oh my god! What the hell is going on?", people would freak! "What the Heck" and "Oh my Gosh" obviously stem from someone still wanting to be able to convey "what the hell" and "oh my god", but have it be acceptable in society. It's all the same thing.

Fornicate means Fuck, why not just say fuck? Who does it hurt?

Sticks and Stones, man. Sticks and Stones.

EVE Online constantly releases new patches, game mechanics, graphics updates, content....and it's always free. You pay your 14.95 a month, and they keep working their asses off to get you better stuff.

So Adobe's only product is Flash?

Photoshop
Acrobat
Illustrator
After Effects
Premiere

How dare you take that inflammatory attitude with him! You and your negative vibes!!

You're lucky I can't mod you right now cuz I'd give you a solid +1 insightful!!

Actually, I thought the score was "Titanic: remixed". There were a few scenes where the the first few notes of "My Heart Will Go On" started playing, and then diverged into something else. Horner didn't bring a lot of originality to this one

I kept expecting to see a naked Rose running through the forest of Pandora, with Jack running after her with a pencil and sketchpad in his arms....

I agree. As much as we all complain that L. Ron Hubbard was a certifiable whacko with delusions of godhood, he did write some great, solid scifi. A good example of scifi not translating well to the big screen was Battlefield Earth.

Great book, shitty movie.

You just can't fit 1100 pages of hard-core scifi into a two hour movie.

While I enjoyed Avatar, I'd love to see a lengthier "Director's Cut" with more info on the planet and it's science.