As an old Stargate fan, I got really excited when my friend told me that the show has been canceled early in the second season.

The show took the good name of the franchise, and sticked it onto a humorless soap-opera in space. The huge fan base started watching the show, and got disappointed quickly. A new small and loyal fan base has emerged, but it was not enough to keep the series alive killing the entire franchise! People will associate the failure of this show with all the previous series (SG-1 and Atlantis), but it's the bloody boring soap-opera genre that bothers sci-fi fans most.

Most Stargate fans would like to revive SG Atlantis since it still has much to tell, but it's very unlikely that this will ever happen. The remaining fan base eagerly awaits a new series which would be equal in quality to the good old Stargate series.

1. Stargate SG-1 (1997-2007) - Samantha Carter: Sir, if you don't mind, your wound is bleeding all over my lab.
2. Stargate Atlantis (2004-2009) - Dr. Rodney McKay: I prefer lethal injection, although I do have a fondness for the electric chair. Call me romantic.
3. Red Dwarf (1988-1999) - Ace Rimmer: Smoke me a kipper! I'll be back for breakfast!
4. The Big Bang Theory (2007-present) - Sheldon Cooper: I'm not insane! My mother had me tested!
5. The X Files (1993-2002) - Fox Mulder: Not who, what.

Since episode one, it's been clear to me that this series is remarkably similar to Battlestar Galactica which I hate utterly also. However, I'm not saying that it is nearly as good as BSG.

When you see O'Neill, Jackson, or Carter take part in the show, you can't help but wonder what convinced them to ruin their famous characters in such a way...

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• AlwaysCenter option for AutoBorder feature
• using FreeImage 3.13.1

Normally, I don't get excited over a few special effects, but this was a work of art. It really made me feel the beatiful new world, and the destruction of it. On top of that was a very good story.

All that from James Cameron who brought us Aliens and Terminator.

Volební program České pirátské strany pro rok 2009:

1. Zajištění základních občanských práv a svobod v době Internetu
2. Revize autorského zákona
3. Reforma veřejné správy
4. Přímá demokracie a decentralizace moci

• Video Player - Zoom Player or Media Player Classic (MPC)
• Decoders - ffdshow (covers most formats) and optionally AC3Filter
• Splitters - Haali Media Splitter (MKV, MP4) and Gabest (MPC) Splitters (AVI, MPG, MKV, MP4) - these play even corrupted/incomplete files
• Subtitle Filters - VSFilter aka DirectVobSub (DVD, embedded, and external subtitles + advanced styling)
• Renderers - madVR (very high quality renderer with various resampling filters and dithering, GPU supporting shaders required) or Haali Renderer (bicubic resampling using shaders)
• Other - ReClock (an alternate audio renderer which avoids movie skipping and/or stuttering by using the video clock to time the playback)
• For the highest quality playback, make sure you enable features like 32-bit audio output (or dithering/noise shaping) and post-processing for non-HD videos only (using a preset in ffdshow).
• Absolutely no codec packs! Install only what you need.

Recently, I bought 5.1 500W speakers mainly for my computer since I watch movies and listen to music a lot. Unfortunately, my sound card (Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer) provides only analog 5.1 output and digital stereo output. Therefore, I used the analog output. However, when I connected my DVB-C set top box using S/PDIF coax, it created some interference for my analog connection. After that, I bought another sound card (Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium) which in a way supports multichannel digital output. The thing is that it outputs only a digital stereo signal or Dolby Digital / DTS (when you watch movies supporting it). Luckily, there is a mode called Dolby Digital Live. This mode basically encodes computer sounds or music into Dolby Digital so it can be properly decoded by your home theater. It is a clean way to play your computer sounds from multiple sources (unlike S/PDIF pass-through which prevents other sounds from playing). Now, I can switch between my optical toslink cable (PC) and digital coax (DVB-C) without any problems. The quality difference between the analog signal (D/A converted using the sound card) and the digital one (D/A converted using the speakers far from the PC - the source of interference) is marginal.

I decided to make this page a little bit more interesting and compiled a list of top 20 movies I really liked. I also included IMDb links and some quotes.

1. Forrest Gump (1994) - Forrest: Stupid is as stupid does.
2. Braveheart (1995) - Hamish: You're a madman. Stephen: I've come to the right place, then.
3. The Matrix Revolutions (2003) - Neo: It's impossible...! Bane: Not impossible. Inevitable.
4. Aliens (1986) - In space no one can hear you scream.
5. The Postman (1997) - Briscoe: Ride, Postman! Ride!
6. The Big Blue (1988) - Enzo: In my village we have a saying. How does it go again? Roberto: I don't remember.
7. The Man from Earth (2007) - Dan: I'm going home and watch Star Trek for a dose of sanity.
8. Seabiscuit (2003) - Red: Though he be but little, he is fierce. (Shakespeare)
9. Star Trek (2009) - Iowa Cop: Citizen, what is your name? Kirk: My name is James Tiberius Kirk!
10. The Fifth Element (1997) - Zorg: I've heard this music before... Let's change the beat.
11. Gladiator (2000) - Maximus: At my signal, unleash hell.
12. 300 (2006) - Leonidas: Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty... For tonight, we dine in hell!
13. Army of Darkness (1992) - Ash: Hail to the king, baby.
14. Million Dollar Baby (2004) - Maggie: Fly there, drive back. Frankie: That's the stupidest thing I ever heard of. How the hell we gonna do that?
15. The Last Samurai (2003) - Katsumoto: I like this General Custer.
16. I Am Legend (2007) - Neville: This is Ground Zero. This is my site. I can fix this.
17. Sin City (2005) - Marv: This is blood for blood and by the gallon. These are the old days, the bad days, the all-or-nothing days. They're back!
18. The School of Rock (2003) - Dewey: All I can say is, let's rock!
19. Twelve Monkeys (1995) - Wallace: I was attacked by a coked up whore and a fuckin' crazy dentist!
20. Equilibrium (2002) - Rebel: He'll shoot us in the back. Preston: If I was gonna shoot you, I'd shoot you in the face.