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Thanks, I'll give it a go.

I appreciate that I could probably eventually figure this out anyway but I'll ask anyway. I'm using a dual digital tuner card and know for a fact that its possible to create crisp multiple recordings when altering priority in task manager to high, but without this recordings are badly effected by other processes. So, my question is this, is it possible to program my computer to always increase the priority of a given program automatically whenever it is started? XP by the way. Any input appreciated.

Erhhh.... Aren't there some rather fundamental problems with the idea of remaking Space 1999?

Never really appreciated the blatant commie overtones until now. This was one of the plots I actually liked the idea of revisiting. Just a society of absolute fascists. I still think the show could do at least 6 great seasons if there was more coherent plannig involved.

I would say that this incarnation is very against the idea of introducing new species, it would seem unlikely as there is a ton of more appropriate stuff from the original that they don't have time to do. It would also convolute the still unexplained mystical and religious elements of the show. Besides, the original never really tackled aliens wholeheartedly, aside from the one off insect guys, and the briefly mentioned giant lizards who created the Cylons, there were no aliens to speak of. Giant lizards, maybe that's why David Eick got involved, oh sorry was thinking of David Icke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ike

Bleep Bleep.

I was always amused how Voyager was supposed to have a crew of about 80 but always seemed to have at least ten completely different extras every week.

Ntl pretty much ran themselves under by billions digging up all the streets so I imagine virgin will take years to make this back up so I wouldn't expect existing DSL lines to get upgraded any time soon. I think I'm on the 20mbit/s connection and its petty much reached that a couple of times -at night. So I'm not complaining. It is overly theoretical, its like the stated range of wifi, two hundred metres, theoretically, in plain light of sight. Problem is a lot of people genuinely believe all these things to be true. Especially the sort of fools I imagine probably work in PC world.

I had always assumed that the twelve colonies were supposed to be in seperate star systems. Corroberated in 'Home part 2' with the Earth vision experience thing at the end: 'Earth is the place where you can look up into the sky and see the constellations of the twelve colonies.' I'd always taken this literally, in that the president observed the constellations that were on the flags of the colonies, and read what she said to mean that the colonies were located in these constellations. Possibly inplausably far from each other, but assumed that this was a result of the laid back science of the series. But I read on the wiki page on the colonies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Colonies This: Relative locations Executive producer Ron Moore has stated that as a nod to the original series, each of the Twelve Colonies is one of 12 planets in a single solar system[citation needed]. In the Battlestar Galactica video game, published in 2003, just prior to the release of the reimagined series, the colonies were in one star system called "Cyrannus". The name "Cyrannus" was used in the original series episode "The Long Patrol", but was used by the character Starbuck as the name of the galaxy, not a single star system, although as with most SF shows of that era, much of the terminology used is obscure and self-contradictory. It appears as if the authors were themselves frequently unclear as to what the difference between a solar system and a galaxy were. As yet, the name "Cyrannus" has not been used in the reimagined series. In the 1978 series, the Colonies were very obviously set in a binary star system, and distinguished between "Inner" and "Outer" colonies. "Inner" colonies orbited the primary star in the system, and "Outer" colonies orbited the other one, though both appeared to be G2 class stars from what little information was visible onscreen. The inner colonies - including Sagitaria and Caprica - were attacked first. By the time the Galactica arrived, the Cylons were already launching their first wave against the outer colonies. In the novelization of the pilot for the 1978 series, the Twelve Colonies are referred to as "The Twelve Colonies of the Three Suns." This would suggest that the constellations on the flags were just artistic observations, rather than actual locations. This makes much more sense of the show in two important respects. 1: If the colonies were all in these locations, they would all be probably at least as far from each other as they are from Earth. Brining in to question the show being a journey show or a finding show. Also the colonies would also be quite possibly maniacally difficult to travel to and from. The show has never really been clear on distance and navigation, whether the difficulty in space travel is to do with jump distances being relatively short in galactic terms, or whether it is the case that it is possible to jump massive distances but the calculations involved must be thouroughly planned out, limiting the distance of any given jump without fore knowledge. Further complicating this may be the possibility that the distance between two jump positions must be completely free of any matter, preventing massive leaps. I think this has remained intentionally ambiguous. 2: If the colonies were in seperate star systems, then the colonists would have been capable of interstellar travel for thousands of years, making their uncertainty of their history seem inplausable, as well as many of their apparent technological limitations. This would be unless the colonists arrived on space arcs built by 'the gods' which may have been initially used to travel between colonies, fallen into disrepair, resulting in cuttoff between certain colonies for long periods of time, before FTL abilities being duplicated and any 'arcs' disappearing into obscurity. The idea of the colonies all being in one place makes much more sense, as it does not suggest an incongruos connection between faster than light travel and prerecorded history. One guy on the talk page brought up some related issues: constellations what constellation represents Earth? and Kobol? Does the 13th Zodiac represent one of them? Ophiucus The constellations and their references are the reason I was rather shocked to read here that all 12 colonies were supposedly in the same star system. I'v been watching the new series since it premiered, and it always seemed to me that the Colonies were a much larger "alliance" than just 12 planets in a single star system. And while I grant that this is indeed science fiction, it stretches believability to suggest the possibility of 12 habitable planets in a single star system. Were it not for Ron Moore's comments to this effect, I would have suggested the Colonies were 12 distinct star systems. Toroca 20:43, 6 February 2007 (UTC) Perhaps there is a large habitable zone around the central star, and a close in gas giant with habitable moons... It could be that a large gas giant in the habitable zone has several habitable moons, and that Caprica and another planet are Tojans of the gas giant... 70.51.8.242 03:44, 17 March 2007 (UTC) I recall this exact same uncertainty in Firefly, in the series I'd assumed that the various planets travelled to were in different star systems, and then in the film it was revealed outright that the show all takes place within the same solar system. Its unclear whether the concept was revised due to a lack of any evidence to the contrary, whether the issue was never given much thought or whether it had always been the case that the show was limited to the same solar system. The two shows seem to have more in common in light of this, in some ways being reversals of each other. Firefly could probably be furnished with a very interesting backstory... Back to the point, this is all very interesting if RDM's statement can actually be verified.

At least he'll be lucky if he doesn't end up having all his dialogue dubbed by another actor like the guy in the 1980 version. I'd rather see another stab at Buck Rogers, in a kind of Idiocracy style.

I'm suprised Dorn isn't retired after 11 years of full time Trek. I'm pretty sure he's pretty much minted, purportedly somewhat unique in not charging for autographs at conventions. This sort of looks like one of those twelve episodes aired out of thirteen made projects. That said rebellious robots is still suprisingly enticing as a concept.

Galen's kind of a cross between Richard E Grant's Withnail and the baby in Family Guy. I will admit that he is suited for this reasonably low budget affair, to give it a small amount of bite. The first part was worryingly cheap though.

Wow, looks like I overlooked my own thread, Thanks. Don't think Slug means anything, just typed it in at random signing up. And my name's not Barry either. For which I consider myself lucky. edit... I have to cut more of the top left hand corner off each time the avatars get smaller so you can still read the misprint.

I just wonder how the hell they got Martin Sheen to do it. Maybe he felt nostalgic about the association with rivers...

The whole space program is in danger of cancellation if astronauts don't wear body hugging suits.

"Galen (Peter Woodward), who was last seen in Babylon 5's second TV movie, The River of Souls." Errhh.. I think they're mistaken.

As in they probably would have written her out with the whole cancer thing if she was a rubbish actress rather than bending over backwards to keep her in the show. Whereas Sinclair was bent over backwards to be written out. Er yep pretty tenuous.

I thinks its this not carrying the 24 thing that's responsible for HDD and recordable media always having less real capacity than stated, as in 4.37 gb on a DVD rather than 4.7.

As I said, connection speed in bits, data in bytes. at 8 bits to the byte. And yes, it does seem rare to reach the 20 megabit/2 megabyte threshold. They also seem to have stopped the annoying business whereby they take a direct debit out of my account one month, fail the next then cut me off saying that I haven't paid for two months a further month later. Then I have to spend a day on the phone to India having already taken apart my computer to see what the problem is. They did that twice. NTL seemed to consistently fail at basic accounting.

Mine hit 1.82mb/s downloading the other night. Which would seem to corroberate that Virgin have in fact doubled all the 10mb connections. In which case it would seem that ever actually reaching that speed is very rare.

It'll be great when we finally get there, we can probably trade bits of the ex-star for weapons with whatever impoverished factions of extra terrestrials happen to have jurastiction in the area.

I think Sheridain was quite well compared to Bill Clinton in space in terms of how he came across. Very nineties in retrospect. Whereas Sinclair was more like Richard Gere on antipsychotic medication several hundred light years from any gerbil or evolutionary parrallel. So I think most people rightly prefer spaceman Clinton in comparison. I'd not heard the narrative arguement for cutting him out, it does make sense I suppose, but probably influenced by much stronger factors. Lets say, Mary Macdonnel was a dreadful actress, the term 'malignant' might carry a bit more weight.

I'm pretty sure that Sinclair was written out because he was utterly useless had no presence, emotion or ability to interact with others. They came to an 'amicable decision' that everyone agreed on and felt absolutely wonderful about and that the character had run his course and without any warning should be suddenly pulled from the show and replaced with someone with identical initials. I'm amazed that this project made it. I really thought B5 was long gone. I seem to be the only one who actually liked Crusade. And Gary Cole as a leading man. The Rangers pilot was completely unnecesary and a poor second that did not deserve to get commissioned in the light of Crusade.

The good news here would be that they will be shown on TV first. Not limiting avaiability to the poor quality streaming vids, which took the edge off the last web series.

Isn't it called Hyperdrive? Yeh. Nearest thing to Red Dwarf in concept would probably be Lexx, and that's totally different in almost every way except maybe Kochanski onward. And yeh its not bad. Not that great either but has inspired moments and avoids being overly spoofish except when its actually funny. Sets are great, CGI was dreadful in the last ep. Looked outdated by about ten years. I think these things do make a difference even in comedy.