Chris, your essay makes me wonder if you have even watched the show.
Oh, you're spot-on with your criticisms of the writing, especially the over-reliance on time travel, but you're so far off on the premise that I hardly know where to begin.
But I'll take a shot:
1) The "warp speed limit" was set in The Next Generation, which went off the air in 1994. Voyager didn't air until 1995. The "speed limit" was set in an episode that aired in November of 1993, "Force of Nature", long before Voyager got lost.
2) 75 years to go 75,000 light years is not at all inconsistent with the physics of the show, even if we assume (which we can) that the speed limit isn't being followed, either because they fixed the problem or because they just don't care. (Paramount's web page says they fixed the problem, in the case of the Intrepid class, with those funky folding warp nacelles.) Unless you think that the ship can maintain 100% engine output constantly for decades, the 75/75,000 number translates out to about Warp 8, which strikes me as a pretty good cruising speed for a ship which is only intended to go three years between refits.
If you're gonna complain, complain about the REAL technical problems, not stuff that you simply don't understand fully.
The entire idea of "corporate death penalty" is ridiculous.
For a corporation to do something illegal, *INDIVIDUALS* have to do something illegal.
Prosecute the individuals.
What possible justification under a rational Constitution could there be for putting innocent people out of work just because their paychecks have the same logo as people who broke the law?
Corporations aren't trying to break free of anything; people are trying to break free. Examine why they feel the need to do that, and address it.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by statesmen, philosophers, and divines......with consistency a great mind simply has nothing to do...." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
EMC uses this in their Internet Solutions Group center. If you want to find out about how it works in action, or see a successful data center using it, call your EMC rep.
It may be huge and heavy, but it's a damn sight easier to manage than a room full of lead-acid batteries, and you don't have to refill it every five years or contact the EPA every time you do any work on it.
It's a sad state of things when you've got to prove that something is good in order that it not be presumed harmful. "This hammer could be used for dangerous purposes -- can you prove there are good uses for it?" Sigh.
So stop voting for the Republicans, and the Democrats, and the Greens, and all the other political parties that promote socially-coercive agendas and support laws that make it impossible for the courts to behave in any other fashion.
Start voting for parties that favor strict liability as a standard for both civil and criminal action.
Or, to put it another way; hammers don't kill people, people kill people, sometimes with hammers. P2P doesn't "steal" intellectual property, people do, sometimes with P2P.
I don't think anybody's arguing whether this is an effective technological system, other than the obvious arguments (stolen cards, spoofed cards, defective cards, etc.)
The argument here is about the horrible privacy violations this opens up.
Regardless of why they are doing it, it opens up the possibility of doing very nasty things they couldn't do nearly as easily without these cards.
It seems to pretty clearly violate Article 17 of the UN Convention on Civil and Political Rights, which India has signed and ratified and is thus subject to under international law.
With the way you worded it, you made it sound as if Bush thought having the computer on (and sitting there), did not use as much power as having the computer on AND sending email.
You know, I was smart and got shit on for it, too.
But what I did *NOT* do is go deliberately try to make myself a target, then bitch about being a target.
If you know folks want to hate you, and you respond by trying to look like something you know they'll fear, then you're committing the same idiocy as someone who walks into a synagogue wearing a Nazi uniform.
If you want someone to stop hating you because you're different, you don't achieve this by accentuating your differences; you achieve it by showing them what you have in common.
I kind of liked the idea of the overwhelming hand phaser power in the old show.(e.g. able to take out the side of a building in piece of the action, and easily vaporizing 4 ft metal walls in the landru episode).
I remember Riker proving he was in a holographic illusion by firing a phaser at someone, and saying that if this were reality, it would have vaporized that entire side of the building.
The first race that rose up in this galaxy was humanoid.
They seeded their DNA, with a message encoded, on every planet they could find. It "guided" the development of sentient life on those worlds, and made it resemble them. Humans, Vulcans, Klingons, Cardassians, Romulans; everybody has a single common ancestor race.
The Enterprise, with help from Klingons, Romulans, and Cardassians, managed to get together the parts from different races' DNA to decode the message, which was a holographic "hi there" from the original race.
I glanced around their homepage, and codeweavers don't even seem to be open source, as far as I can tell.
Perhaps you should have done more than glance, as should the moderators who modded you up to +5 for this uninformed opinion.
Their primary product is enhanced Wine, completely Open Source. Even this article makes it clear that they're discussing possible release of this new product under the Artistic License, which is what Perl uses. Folks may argue whether Perl's license is Free Software, but I haven't seen it argued that it ain't Open Source.
They say in their "About" page that they actively support open source.
They link to the FSF on their "links" page.
All their upcoming projects (all of them) are based on Wine, which is under the X11 license.
They're not GPL, but they're Free Software and Open Source as anybody. At this point, more so than Red Hat, for instance.
That being said, what I really want to know is how they're going to explain how technology suddenly takes a nosedive somewhere during the 21st century.
Obviously, they're going to retcon the technology.
Expect it to be more like the movie era in appearance, even though pre-TOS in function. In particular, I would expect the computer voice to be more realistic, and all the displays to be computerized, even if many of the consoles will still have buttons.
I'm more interested in what they're going to do with the weapons and shuttles. Will they follow the continuity and use lasers? Will they make them realistic, or will they look just like phasers? (I expect the latter, real lasers are boring.)
Will the shuttles have rockets and realistic manuevering, or will they have reactionless drives and fly like they're on an invisible luge like they do on Voyager?
Also, I know we won't start with transporters, but will we develop them during the series? Will other races have them?
Ship weapons; do we have shields? Anti-matter warheads on our torpedos? Lasers and particle beams? Kinetic weapons?
Of course, to win a case against a spammer who's sent you an email, you're going to have to prove he did it.
That's going to use up a hell of a lot of your time and resources.
Plus, in order to prove you didn't fake the whole thing, the court is going to need expert testimony as to the state of your system, to prove you didn't fake it.
It'll be too expensive to bring in an auditor every time, so of course your system will have to be monitored by "uncrackable" government-approved software.
Or, the law will be unenforceable, and just be yet another of the many thousands of laws on our books that nobody pays any attention to, and that contribute to the general decline in respect for the law in this country.
My procmail filter stops a hell of a lot more spam than the last anti-spam bill managed; all it did was add an extra few lines onto the end of each spam. Hitting the delete key wastes less of my time and resources than going into our already-overcrowded court system.
The most effective methods of fighting spam don't involve inviting Big Brother into closer scrutiny of your private life. Get over spam; if it's not effective advertising, it'll go away on it's own.
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Yeah, and Hitler made the trains run on time, too.
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Chris, your essay makes me wonder if you have even watched the show.
Oh, you're spot-on with your criticisms of the writing, especially the over-reliance on time travel, but you're so far off on the premise that I hardly know where to begin.
But I'll take a shot:
1) The "warp speed limit" was set in The Next Generation, which went off the air in 1994. Voyager didn't air until 1995. The "speed limit" was set in an episode that aired in November of 1993, "Force of Nature", long before Voyager got lost.
2) 75 years to go 75,000 light years is not at all inconsistent with the physics of the show, even if we assume (which we can) that the speed limit isn't being followed, either because they fixed the problem or because they just don't care. (Paramount's web page says they fixed the problem, in the case of the Intrepid class, with those funky folding warp nacelles.) Unless you think that the ship can maintain 100% engine output constantly for decades, the 75/75,000 number translates out to about Warp 8, which strikes me as a pretty good cruising speed for a ship which is only intended to go three years between refits.
If you're gonna complain, complain about the REAL technical problems, not stuff that you simply don't understand fully.
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The entire idea of "corporate death penalty" is ridiculous.
For a corporation to do something illegal, *INDIVIDUALS* have to do something illegal.
Prosecute the individuals.
What possible justification under a rational Constitution could there be for putting innocent people out of work just because their paychecks have the same logo as people who broke the law?
Corporations aren't trying to break free of anything; people are trying to break free. Examine why they feel the need to do that, and address it.
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And what they really lack is consistency
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by statesmen, philosophers, and divines......with consistency a great mind simply has nothing to do...." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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EMC uses this in their Internet Solutions Group center. If you want to find out about how it works in action, or see a successful data center using it, call your EMC rep.
:-)
It may be huge and heavy, but it's a damn sight easier to manage than a room full of lead-acid batteries, and you don't have to refill it every five years or contact the EPA every time you do any work on it.
Makes cooler noises, too.
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Actually, if they could manage to ban FAT32, that'd be the first good thing to come out of these lawsuits.
Maybe we can convince them to ban NetBIOS while they're at it.
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It's a sad state of things when you've got to prove that something is good in order that it not be presumed harmful. "This hammer could be used for dangerous purposes -- can you prove there are good uses for it?" Sigh.
So stop voting for the Republicans, and the Democrats, and the Greens, and all the other political parties that promote socially-coercive agendas and support laws that make it impossible for the courts to behave in any other fashion.
Start voting for parties that favor strict liability as a standard for both civil and criminal action.
Or, to put it another way; hammers don't kill people, people kill people, sometimes with hammers. P2P doesn't "steal" intellectual property, people do, sometimes with P2P.
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I don't think anybody's arguing whether this is an effective technological system, other than the obvious arguments (stolen cards, spoofed cards, defective cards, etc.)
The argument here is about the horrible privacy violations this opens up.
Regardless of why they are doing it, it opens up the possibility of doing very nasty things they couldn't do nearly as easily without these cards.
It seems to pretty clearly violate Article 17 of the UN Convention on Civil and Political Rights, which India has signed and ratified and is thus subject to under international law.
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With the way you worded it, you made it sound as if Bush thought having the computer on (and sitting there), did not use as much power as having the computer on AND sending email.
So what if he did? It's true.
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You know, I was smart and got shit on for it, too.
But what I did *NOT* do is go deliberately try to make myself a target, then bitch about being a target.
If you know folks want to hate you, and you respond by trying to look like something you know they'll fear, then you're committing the same idiocy as someone who walks into a synagogue wearing a Nazi uniform.
If you want someone to stop hating you because you're different, you don't achieve this by accentuating your differences; you achieve it by showing them what you have in common.
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As someone considering NASA after their Ph.D., I find your comment offensive and ill-informed.
Perhaps your University's graduate program should offer a course on emoticons and their meaning.
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I kind of liked the idea of the overwhelming hand phaser power in the old show.(e.g. able to take out the side of a building in piece of the action, and easily vaporizing 4 ft metal walls in the landru episode).
I remember Riker proving he was in a holographic illusion by firing a phaser at someone, and saying that if this were reality, it would have vaporized that entire side of the building.
It was a joke; the whole thing is about 5k, so it was a joke to add that extra .5 MB.
15.5MB would be a joke; 7.5MB is a mistake. Suck up and take it like a man.
Do they release the enhanced portions of their code?
Are you going to do any research at all on this thread, or just continue to make an ass of yourself?
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Well, briefly:
The first race that rose up in this galaxy was humanoid.
They seeded their DNA, with a message encoded, on every planet they could find. It "guided" the development of sentient life on those worlds, and made it resemble them. Humans, Vulcans, Klingons, Cardassians, Romulans; everybody has a single common ancestor race.
The Enterprise, with help from Klingons, Romulans, and Cardassians, managed to get together the parts from different races' DNA to decode the message, which was a holographic "hi there" from the original race.
At least michael you could have posted the link for Comet Cursors since you've mentioned it in the header.
IMNERHO, any post that contains a link to Comet Cursors should be nuked by the same lameness filter that catches goatsecx and comp-u-geek links.
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I glanced around their homepage, and codeweavers don't even seem to be open source, as far as I can tell.
Perhaps you should have done more than glance, as should the moderators who modded you up to +5 for this uninformed opinion.
Their primary product is enhanced Wine, completely Open Source. Even this article makes it clear that they're discussing possible release of this new product under the Artistic License, which is what Perl uses. Folks may argue whether Perl's license is Free Software, but I haven't seen it argued that it ain't Open Source.
They say in their "About" page that they actively support open source.
They link to the FSF on their "links" page.
All their upcoming projects (all of them) are based on Wine, which is under the X11 license.
They're not GPL, but they're Free Software and Open Source as anybody. At this point, more so than Red Hat, for instance.
Oh, yeah; they pay people to work on Wine. They even have a web page devoted to it.
What the hell else do you want from them? Source code for the stuff they haven't written yet?
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Are we to believe that everyone in the universe has elvolved looking just like humans with a few facial ridge features?
They did go to the trouble of having a Next Generation episode that explained why.
If your box is providing Internet services, it by definition has ports open.
Any box can easily be that secure, or even more secure. Hell, pull the ethernet cable out and ssh will be closed too.
The measure of security of a box is the security of the ports that *ARE* open. Even a flawed ssh implementation can be insecure.
So, to say no ports == harder to access is disingenuous, akin to saying "not turned on == harder to access". In other words, true, but irrelevant.
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Also, most lisp engines I've seen are interpreted (save for things like the Lisp Machine).
Not just untrue for decades now, but a persistent myth/slur.
I'm curious; how do you know it's untrue that most of the lisp engines HE'S SEEN are interpreted, and how is it a persistent myth that he's seen them?
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That being said, what I really want to know is how they're going to explain how technology suddenly takes a nosedive somewhere during the 21st century.
Obviously, they're going to retcon the technology.
Expect it to be more like the movie era in appearance, even though pre-TOS in function. In particular, I would expect the computer voice to be more realistic, and all the displays to be computerized, even if many of the consoles will still have buttons.
I'm more interested in what they're going to do with the weapons and shuttles. Will they follow the continuity and use lasers? Will they make them realistic, or will they look just like phasers? (I expect the latter, real lasers are boring.)
Will the shuttles have rockets and realistic manuevering, or will they have reactionless drives and fly like they're on an invisible luge like they do on Voyager?
Also, I know we won't start with transporters, but will we develop them during the series? Will other races have them?
Ship weapons; do we have shields? Anti-matter warheads on our torpedos? Lasers and particle beams? Kinetic weapons?
Did you just bitch about too many time travel episodes on Voyager and lack of a Dr. Who revival in the same message, and get modded up as insightful?
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Could be bad when the Earth gets into litigation with the sun for sending unsolicited spammers...
That's OK, it's a one-time mailing, there is no need to request removal, and they were clearly marked as such in compliance with etc...
Of course, to win a case against a spammer who's sent you an email, you're going to have to prove he did it.
That's going to use up a hell of a lot of your time and resources.
Plus, in order to prove you didn't fake the whole thing, the court is going to need expert testimony as to the state of your system, to prove you didn't fake it.
It'll be too expensive to bring in an auditor every time, so of course your system will have to be monitored by "uncrackable" government-approved software.
Or, the law will be unenforceable, and just be yet another of the many thousands of laws on our books that nobody pays any attention to, and that contribute to the general decline in respect for the law in this country.
My procmail filter stops a hell of a lot more spam than the last anti-spam bill managed; all it did was add an extra few lines onto the end of each spam. Hitting the delete key wastes less of my time and resources than going into our already-overcrowded court system.
The most effective methods of fighting spam don't involve inviting Big Brother into closer scrutiny of your private life. Get over spam; if it's not effective advertising, it'll go away on it's own.
However, every Unix person that I know that has played with OS X is impressed... It's a sharp OS.
Every Unix person I know is impressed with OS X, too; and still running Linux.