I doubt it. The company that is using this tech is going to want to sell it to WB in the future. I think this is just going to go down as an accounting error, settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.

Opera is on top with Version 10.

Plus it is actually good so you know that should count for something.

That leg will ride down with wear.

//Ahh British Comedy I never tire of your nostalgia.
///Did anybody ask him if he was being served?

Excellent explanation.
Nice work.
// If only there were a tag so I could show that I was not being sarcastic....

Well, you do have the right to get from it what you will but I am not sure why you down play the significance of the island. I see it as more of a Pandora's box, or for some, the containment vessel in Ghost Busters. For Smoky to leave the light had to be put out, if the light is put out the island sinks and is no longer the cork in the bottle. I really believe that everything that Jacob said this season was true. I am trying to think back to anything that Jacob said that was not true and I cannot think of anything. Smokey was a hurt little boy that only wanted to get away from home, some of us can feel his pain. It was a battle that started when he was young and became a crusade. I do not think that he thought it would destroy the world, he simply had been trying to get off the island for so long that is all he knew. It was the same way that Jack was sure calling the boat was a good thing, we know how that turned out.

So do you consider Slaughterhouse-Five coherent or a bad story? I will admit that I had trouble following when I was 15, that does not mean I did not like it.

Yes Virginia, there are something that are best enjoyed by people of intellect. Willing to do some of the work for themselves, they do not want to be be fed every detail of a story. Much the same way Socrates would tell you what is wrong so that you could decide what is right.
I am not patting myself on the back but, I know what I am. :-P

As I have said I do not believe any of the main plot lines were left untold. The writers have to stop somewhere right. Look at Lord of the Flies. It ends with Ralph crying. Okay what happens when he gets home? What kind of job does he get? How many children does he have? Interesting questions but in the end they do not matter.

Well, I get the idea because I have read books. Please give an example of a “main” plot line unresolved.

I have to respectfully disagree with you. As you say you missed all of season 5, the season that answers most of you questions. If you did not watch it you did not see who the smoke monster really was, how he was made and what he was trying to do. If you had watched you would have found out that everything Jacob said about the island was the truth, it was the cork in the bottle.

Yes like any good book, questions were left unanswered. The show, from the start, was a thinking man's who. The writers choose names very carefully and wrote little hints as to what is happening. There are reasons that John Locke was named after the philosopher. Before I can tell you what I think about the Walt and Faraday I have to clear some other things up.

I have to say I do not think the show was ever not wrapped in symbolism. But what is really important is that you said “lead writer had refuted the theory that everyone was dead, in purgatory, in heaven or in hell. Yet, at the end they're clearly in some sort of afterlife.” No they said the Island was not purgatory and it was not. The island was real. I would try to explain more to you about the island but since you did not watch the last season that it would really just be a waste of time. I do not mean to flippant about that but what the island is was explained and you chose not to watch it. In the flash sideways time is not a constant, that is the point. They all lived their lives and then came together at the end once all of them were dead, it can be confusing if you keep trying to apply time to the flash side ways. You cannot do that, time is not what you think it was as they were waiting. That is why Ben was not in the church, he was waiting for whom he leaned to love, his child and her mother. Again you missed all that since you did not watch the last season.

In the end you were really supposed to decide what that show meant for you. I think the real issue with people that did not like the ending was that they want to be told everything. They want everything to be explained to them, that is how T.V. works now. I go back to my original point that it was a thinking mans show. The more you have read, especially philosophy the more there was to get out of the show.

No you do not know when people died. Not all of them. They died at different times as they lived their life. They all met up before going to heaven. In the end they were all part of a great battle that could have been the end of the world. They were changed for the better and they wanted to met before moving on together. That was the flash sides ways in the end that was the fake world, it was only built by them, so they could all be together. It may seem like that was a type or purgatory I think of it as more of a waiting room. I would not say there were suffering, so it would be a stretch to say it is purgatory.

I guess what really bothers me is that this post is rated insightful and it was written by a person that did not even watch the whole series, and the most important season was missed all together. Would we think so much of a book review if the writer had picked random pages to read, and then complained when they said it seems like the books jumps around a lot.

Again I have say it was a thinking mans show. As all mysteries are, if you wanted to just watch a show that has everything explained to you then yes, you were watching the wrong show. If you wanted a show that was more like a well written book and you had to think about it to see how it changed and moved you then this show was for you. I have to say there are not may question that I feel were unanswered. I am sure there will be a number of post that put it all out there for the ones that choose to be told what happened then to work it out themselves. But that is like playing a video game by following the walk-through what is the point? You might as well wait for the movie.


// That is what I think anyway.

I also would agree with you. It seems though "frictionless" there are many inefficiencies in this transmission. It becomes clear when you think of the move from "neutral" to "first gear". With a gas engine you would need another engine spinning at near the same power to cancel out the sun gear turning. As you shift to first, that other/control/second engine will actually be turning to reduce power of the main engine, in-effect they will be working against each other until you get to the ratio where the other/control/second comes to a stop. I think this will be when the transmission is most efficient when it works as a normal planet gear system. After that the other/control/second will start providing power that actually increases the output. So it will be about controlling that crossover point to make the system efficient. But at that point what does it matter. You cannot drive this off a single gas engine and I think that will be the down fall. If you want to be really efficient that we just need to more to gas/diesel electrics where the engine turns a generator and that powers the motor. There is a reason that is how large earth moving equipment and diesel/electric trains work.

//That is what I think anyway.

You are doing it wrong...... Slashdot good. Long live FARK

You also have to remember that there have been a number of legitimate sites that have been hacked and used to deliver Malware. AVS only protects against known threats. That is the main flaw of current AVS.

I do not know what is worse that you think there is no replacement for MS Exchange, let alone a better one, Or the fact that you think Open Source software caused MS Exchange to stop working.

How does that work again, is it because the Open Source solution followed the RFC and MS does not know how to handle that.

Yeah the price that you list for your University is no where near what a corporation would pay. I work for a large company with other 30,000 desktops and we had to pay over $100 for the office upgrade, not including all the hardware we had to upgrade to run the new office and the man power to get all of that done. Both Google and Microsoft have all but stated that they give away the software and services to schools so that they are more familiar with it when they get to the work force. But once you get out of the education realm you are going to pay big bucks for the software. All that money could be use to train and give higher pay to a better staff running no MS stuff.

As for the interoperability, I agree with you no will will even know about the back end stuff. Use what works best. My opinion is that is open source but, that is just because I like my servers to keep running.