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Techies and Trekkies Unite!
emmetropia writes: "Startrek.com has announced that there is going going to be an Online Convention in early August. Every attendee will be able to make themselves look like any of your favorite ST species, Borg, Klingon, Vulcan, Terran, Ferengi, etc etc. The servers for the event are supposed to be able to handle up to 100,000 users, which would mean a rather large convention, let's just hope it doesn't suffer the same fate as Final Fantasy. With full 3D conventions here now, can a holodeck really be that far off?"
Ohh they were fun back in err what 97 :)
Wonder round a badly made 3D world, where people would try to talk to you, but you all really longed for a chain saw...
Hmm.... shame it costs to play with, that would be fun.
Wow, I should not post when knackered.
Are any of the "real" characters going to be there virtually? And, if so, how does one know whether one is chatting up the real Beverley or an imposter?
mysql> select * from human where (human.trekkie=1 and human.techie=0);
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Oddly enough, treckies chances of getting laid at this convention are identical to those of getting laid at a real convention.
UGH! No Linux/Mac interface. Geesh, they should of just used the Quake 2 engine instead. You know that was portable.
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Rather than going to a traditional sci-fi convention where I would fail to get laid, I can attend an online convention and fail to get cybersex. Computers really have improved my life...
One of my favorite ways to have fun. I dress up in my Jedi robes with my lightsaber, and crash the real convetions. Had a friend who would dress up as Solo too. Damn the trekkies would go apeshit. But then we took it too far, and my friend started in on someone dressed up as Scotty about how the Falcon could outrun that ugly looking enterprise... The second largest ST convetion riot in North America.
Ouch.
Finally, I can look like a Terran!
Was it just strange coincidence that I have caught this thread at 7 of 9 comments? I think not. =)
And what about the the ability to handle 100,000 clients, is that really going to be enough? I mean, there are a lot of admitted trekkies in the world, but there are several more out there in the 'closet' which would see something this as a welcomed invite to attend a trekkie convention whereas they wouldn't have in RealLife(tm).
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What's worse? Not getting cybersex or finding out you just did it with some guy pretending to be a Ferengi female. *shudder*
With full 3D conventions here now, can a holodeck really be that far off?
Yes.
Next question?
That out of all the space going races in the star trek universe, the race the American government most resembles is the Ferengi....
M0571y H@rml355.
Welcome to the future, ladies and gentlemen.
"To make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." -Carl Sagan
Anyone else notice that this ST convention is going to be on the same three days (August 2nd - 4th) in Las Vegas as Defcon X is going to be? Drunk techies and trekies in Las Vegas = biggest, nerdiest party ever.
sigs are dumb.
Whoa! It's the fake Los Alamos PhD troll. I laughed when someone pointed out in a previous comment of yours, that you didn't even know which state Los Alamos was in.
But anyway, back on topic. Star Trek was incredibly liberal for its day, showing on a primetime show, russians, asians, blacks and women all working together for a common (mostly) peaceful cause. So even if you are full of bullshit, it was a nice troll.
Maybe if this level of trolling is too much for you, you can practice on something easier, like page-widening.
As an avid fan, I was interested and decided to sign up. I happened to mistakingly clicked on their privacy policy and I found this buried in the bottom:
VCLLC may also sell, transfer or otherwise disclose user information, including PII, in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, the sale of substantially all assets, or other fundamental corporate change.
So, if they all of sudden become a porn spewing outfit, they have all those email addys and what they call "PII" (personally identifiable information -- like your address and phone number)at their disposal.
Stupid internet.
C'mon, especially those who've attended a con Marriott Hunt Valley in Cockeysville, MD, a Virtual Con can't supply a comfortable seat at the Paddock Bar and the soothing waters of a well-attended jacuzzi.
;P).
And that's probably the best thing about a con -- the afterhours partying and socializing (and, ahem, other activities between/among consenting adults
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
- In fact, all leadership roles on Star Trek, old and new, are white males.
Except for the black Captain Benjamin Sisko in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the female Captain Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager......to see a small groups of Vorlons crash the party and start talking cryptic trash to the trekkies. :-)
"How do you think this Convention is going to end?"
"In fire."
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
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You want all the people that are trekkies and techies, right? I'm maybe a little rusty, but wouldn't you want something like this:
mysql> select * from human where (human.trekkie=1 and human.techie=1);
That is, you want all rows where the records indicate that the subject is both a trekkie and a techie? Or maybe it'd be more clear if you had two columns like this:
CREATE TABLE human (
id INT(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
name VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
trekkie ENUM('YES','NO') DEFAULT 'NO',
techie ENUM('YES','NO') DEFAULT 'NO'
);
Then you could say:
mysql> select * from human where (human.trekkie='YES' and human.techie='YES');
Which is the same thing, I guess. Maybe. I'm not sure. Anyway, this got much too geeky...
-B
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With full 3D conventions here now, can a holodeck really be that far off?
Is it some unofficial rule that the last sentence in a story (either of the submitter or the posters making) has to be incredibly banal and idiotic?? This one about takes the cake...yeesh.
- the highest-ranking female seen to date in Star Trek is Captain Kathryn Janeway, the lead character in Star Trek: Voyager
- if you'd like to complain about "servitude", you should note that everyone is in a position of servitude to the captain
- "captain" is only a sexually-charged word if you choose to make it so for your own disingenuous purposes; it has been a rank since at least the 1700s
- Riker is never portrayed as predatory in my recollection. Women on the "new" show you refer to, Star Trek: The Next Generation which began airing in 1988 (from memory; I could be a year or two off), are presented in positions of authority and importance: Dr Beverly Crusher, the ship's chief medical officer; Lt Tasha Yar (since deceased on the show), the chief security officer for the first season or so; and Deanna Troi, the ship's counsellor who is always on the bridge
- techies comprise only a small percentage of Star Trek's total viewership and fan base
- you should indeed be modded down, for you are a troll. However, since other people less informed than myself may believe you (and obviously have, since you've been modded insightful (good troll btw)), I am replying to set the facts straight.
I'd be glad to discuss in greater depth any or all of the Star Trek programs, should you choose to rise to the bait.Um, don't remember seeing any whips, to be honest.
Cap. Janeway was supposedly a woman, though some are still demanding a chromosome test. The black woman was a commisioned officer, as opposed to the asian and russian who were both ensigns iirc. And despite how you like to troll it up, a communications specialist on a military ship is anything but a "receptionist". Not that you'd know much about that. As for a starship pilot being a "chauffeur"... oh well. You say the show was misogynistic, and yet it appears to be you that is the man-hater. Me, I've always sort of thought that everyone has only ever been as far away from the other sex as a few gene expressions taking place the first couple days after conception. I totally accept the fact that both men and women (like yourself) are totally fucked up. Funny, but you're just another part of the problem you hate so much. Haha.
The new show:
Geordi Laforge was black, last time I noticed. Cap. Sisko was black. I seem to remember more than a few female admirals too, one show or another.
Sounds like a prime opportunity to test out those miniature tactical nukes our government is whispering about. Whoever it doesn't kill, it sterilizes -- Something that would allow us to forget the past as well as preventing this sort of thing from happening in the future.
Sounds like a good deal to me.
Cheers,
Bowie J. Poag
In fact, all leadership roles on Star Trek, old and new, are white males.
Who is the silly, silly person?
Besides sisko and janeway, there were lots of female admirals, and Captain Sulu, and lots of others.
And, a digression: Why do we use the phrase "white women" but for the other gender people say "white males." Like they are some other species?
God is real unless declared integer
Actually, the Klingon word for human is tera'ngan, or something similar.
...oh god, did I just say that? Did I really just admit to knowing some tlhIngan Hol?
My life is so sad and empty.
"This is a Hollywood movie: when it comes to the Laws of Physics, they're lucky if they get Gravity!" --- my wife
Hehe, while we're on the subject of high ranking female ST officers, a few you missed are..
7of9, Tactical
Lt. Torrez, Engineering
Vulcan Science officer on Enterprise
And the female Admerial everyone keeps reffering too, she was in the TNG episode with the scorpions that buried in the back of your neck and took over your mind.
They're going to have to make the avatars quite a bit more chubby if they're going to make it seem like a real convention.
The pupose of conventions is to bring strange people together. Onine is no fun.
Her name is Nora Satie, and she was also in a later episode, "The Drumhead", where she went on a witch hunt onboard Enterprise.
>to the power of Infinity minus one, an irrational number
No. Aleph(0) is the infinity of the integers. Aleph(1) is the infinity of the continuum.
Aleph(i)=2**Aleph(i-1)
Aleph(i)+Aleph(j)=Aleph
Aleph(i)*Aleph(j)=Aleph(Max(i,j))
And so forth. So 2^infinity-1 = infinity, where "infinity" is whichever infinity you were talking about in the first place.
This is basic transfinite arithmetic,
hawk, who learned this directly from Halmos
(yes, *that* Halmos)
What you say rings true; however, I just saw a one-off magazine down at Fry's that touted that it was "Timeless Star Trek." There were three captains on the cover.
Can you guess which three?
Kirk, Picard, and... Archer?
Ugh. Not only does the target market appear to be misogynist, there's probably also racism involved. Janeway and Sisko each have more "right" to be on the cover than Archer. No offense to the actor who plays Archer, but the fewest people seem to like his show or his character.
But God help us if anyone but white guys are on that cover, right? The market segmentation seems clearer if you can assume that publisher tested covers in focus groups before picking one, and that the artist didn't just say "I don't know how to draw those two" or "I don't know who they are."
Get off my launchpad!